Saugus High salutes retiring staff members

SAUGUS – Saugus High School said goodbye to five teachers and staff members who retired after long careers in Saugus.Carol Fiore and John Bryant from the computer department, math teacher Patricia Moran, English teacher and Student Council adviser Jane Osgood and guidance secretary Joyce Tramontozzi all retired at the end of this school year.For Moran, Saugus schools have been her second home for 45 years. Moran started at Saugus High school in 1968 as a student and graduated in 1971. After college, she started teaching at the middle school in 1975 for five years before moving to the high school in 1980.?Forty-five years,” said Moran. “I was just doing the math and I was like, ?Whoa.? I have mixed emotions. I?ve grown up here. I really have and some of my good friends were my former students. Like Mike Hashem, who is now my boss, is a former student of mine, Mike Maruzzi is a former student and they both turned out to be math teachers.”Moran said the best part of her job is having former students come back to visit her and thank her.?There are still a lot of nice kids that you really try to bring out the best in them,” said Moran. “I?ll miss the kids. There are a lot of nice kids here. There really are.”Moran said she?s looking forward to shutting her alarm clock off and, as a resident of Georgetown, not having to commute anymore.?Mostly I?m going to travel and I want to really work on my house,” she said. “I?m going to Disney the week the kids go back to school with my husband, my family ? my two sons and my grandson. I bought plane tickets for everyone for Christmas so that?s what we?re doing.”Osgood has been in Saugus for 21 years, 19 of which she served as Student Council adviser, and said she?s going to miss the students and Student Council activities like the talent show and state conferences the most.?The leadership roles these students took and all the hard work they put in to it to make us a top gold council in the state and then a gold council in the nation, it?s an awful lot of work for kids to take charge of and decide they want to go for it,” she said.Osgood said her students have always been a “very giving group of kids.”?That has always impressed me,” said Osgood. “They?re ones that have carried the momentum along ? And I enjoyed my teaching as well. I loved my juniors and I loved my advanced placement seniors.”Fiore has been teaching in Saugus for 18 years and started in 1975. She was laid off in 1978 and went to work for the family company before returning to the high school in 1998 to teach computer classes.Fiore said computer classes have come a long way from basic typing and Microsoft Office lessons as she teaches classes on programs like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.?I?m going to miss my friends and I?m going to miss a lot of the kids,” said Fiore. “The majority of the kids are really good kids, and they can be funny and they keep you young I think. I?m not going to miss setting my alarm and getting up early in the morning.”Fiore said she plans to do some traveling and spend more time with her grandson.?I don?t really have anything specific but just try to relax and enjoy life,” she said.Matt Tempesta can be reached at [email protected].