TOWSON, MD. – Next week, students, faculty and staff will say goodbye to 34 educators who have each dedicated more than 35 years of service to students in Baltimore County Public Schools.
Among the educators retiring at the end of the school year is Betty Edwards, who’s spent 50 consecutive years at Patapsco High School and Center for Arts, first as a physical education teacher and now as a guidance counselor; Deborah Bittner, the principal of Catonsville High School who will retire after nearly 42 years in county schools; two husband and wife couples retiring with combined service of 73 and 70 years; and three Towson High School teachers each retiring with more than 40 years of service.
Educators retiring with 35 or more years of service to BCPS include:
- Betty Edwards of Middle River, retiring from Patapsco High School and Center for Arts with 50 years of service
- Ray Settle of Arnold, retiring from Western School of Technology with 47 years of service
- Leonard Bostian of Jarrettsville, retiring from Towson High School with 45 years of service
- Alfred Olsen of Delta, Pa., retiring from Towson High School with 45 years of service
- Alicia Ruppersberger of Lutherville, retiring from Golden Ring Middle School with 44 years of service
- John Lange of Cockeysville, retiring from Hereford High School with 44 years of service
- Deborah Bittner of Halethorpe, retiring from Catonsville High School with 42 years of service
- Patricia Pinzuti of Parkville, retiring from Timber Grove Elementary School with 41 years of service
- Jennifer Traynham of Catonsville, retiring from Relay Elementary School with 41 years of service
- Kathie McLaughlin of Windsor Mill, retiring from Baltimore Highlands Elementary School with 40 years of service
- Michael Gladden of Red Lion, Pa., retiring from Towson High School with 40 years of service
- John Sheehe of Baltimore, retiring from Sollers Point Technical High School with 40 years of service
- Pamela Nevel of Owings Mills, retiring from Milford Mill Academy with 39 years of service
- Wanda Carter of Baltimore, retiring from Kenwood High School with 39 years of service
- Karen Burns of Lutherville, retiring from Ridge Ruxton School with 39 years of service
- Frances Holstein of Parkville, retiring from Parkville Middle School with 38 years of service
- Paul Leroy of Bel Air, retiring from Dulaney High School with 38 years of service
- Patricia Murphy of Baltimore, retiring from Riderwood Elementary School with 38 years of service
- Bernadine Zienkiewicz of Catonsville, retiring from Patapsco High School & Center for Arts with 38 years of service
- Connie Clarke of Finksburg, retiring from Fort Garrison Elementary School with 38 years of service
- Sharon Shifflett of Forest Hill, retiring from Perry Hall Elementary School with 37 years of service
- Raymond Pluemer of Parkville, retiring from Milford Mill Academy with 37 years of service
- Marilyn White of Bel Air, retiring from Perry Hall Middle School with 37 years of service
- Randi Heilman of Street, retiring from Pine Grove Elementary School with 37 years of service
- Cecilia Terlizzi of Hampstead, retiring from Sudbrook Magnet Middle School with 37 years of service
- Mary Ellen Pluemer of Parkville, retiring from Pine Grove Middle School with 36 years of service
- Walter Isham of Westminster, retiring from Hereford Middle School with 36 years of service
- Joanna Ambridge of Bel Air, retiring from Pine Grove Elementary School with 36 years of service
- Barbara Yolken of Owings Mills, retiring from Fort Garrison Elementary School with 36 years of service
- Edith Howard of Columbia, retiring from Woodmoor Elementary School with 36 years of service
- Richard Zentz of Lutherville, retiring from Parkville High School with 35 years of service
- Bonnie Zentz of Lutherville, retiring from Battle Monument School with 35 years of service
- Angelina Simpson of Baltimore, retiring from Pine Grove Middle School with 35 years of service
- Bernard Hynson of Halethorpe, retiring from Arbutus Middle School with 35 years of service