Mary Tschida, Community Education Director - retiring after 38 years at Pierz Schools
There is really no one certain thing that I love about my job, there are many…..I truly enjoy coming to work each day (maybe being a part-timer has something to do about that), it’s the people I work with, the people that I have come into contact with from the community, the many volunteers, parents, and students.
I am very proud to say I work for the Pierz School District. We have so many good things happening within our buildings. It’s just fun to take a stroll down the hallways and listen to what is taking place in classrooms. I wish everyone would have that opportunity to do so.
As for hobbies….I have a few…a good book, Swedish Weaving, playing cards/games, everything that goes with Cabin Life. And I love the great outdoors that farm life has given me. The grandkids have stolen my heart-I love them to pieces. My oldest sister “warned” me about the effects that grandchildren have on a person-she was soooo right.
I really was not a very involved student when I was in high school. Growing up on a farm in the 1960s/70s without all the modern technology/equipment that we have today meant a fair amount of physical labor-we all had our chores to do. However, when I was a junior, I got to go out for volleyball. It was the first time in Pierz School history that volleyball was being offered as a sport for girls to participate in. Then when I was a senior, Pierz Schools added basketball for girls and I convinced my mom to let me participate in that, too. I considered myself pretty lucky. Sports for girls really got its start at this time because of the passage of Title IX.
I do not think very many people know that when I headed off to college, I played intercollegiate sports - basketball and fastpitch softball. In basketball I was a member of the 1977 Division I Championship Basketball Team. In softball, I was a four-year starter earning All-State honors my junior and senior years and captained the team my senior year. In 2009, I was inducted into the Pierz Healy H.S. Hall of Fame.
I really do not have much of a bucket list...maybe a little traveling (I’m really a home-body), hanging out with my family, siblings, and spending more time at the lake-doing nothing with husband Don and my children Adam and his wife Angela, Amanda and her husband Chad, Calvin and his wife Melissa along with our five grandchildren and one step-grandchild. Down the road I can see myself volunteering-giving back to this community.
I hope you can sense that I truly feel that I have had the best job in the world, working with and for the best people in the world. Will I miss it? Absolutely. But in my heart the time is right. I’ve got grandkids to love, cabin life to enjoy, and who knows maybe I will even become a traveler!! So, it is at this time I would like to express a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of you whose paths I have crossed. You have enriched my life beyond words.
I am very proud to say I work for the Pierz School District. We have so many good things happening within our buildings. It’s just fun to take a stroll down the hallways and listen to what is taking place in classrooms. I wish everyone would have that opportunity to do so.
As for hobbies….I have a few…a good book, Swedish Weaving, playing cards/games, everything that goes with Cabin Life. And I love the great outdoors that farm life has given me. The grandkids have stolen my heart-I love them to pieces. My oldest sister “warned” me about the effects that grandchildren have on a person-she was soooo right.
I really was not a very involved student when I was in high school. Growing up on a farm in the 1960s/70s without all the modern technology/equipment that we have today meant a fair amount of physical labor-we all had our chores to do. However, when I was a junior, I got to go out for volleyball. It was the first time in Pierz School history that volleyball was being offered as a sport for girls to participate in. Then when I was a senior, Pierz Schools added basketball for girls and I convinced my mom to let me participate in that, too. I considered myself pretty lucky. Sports for girls really got its start at this time because of the passage of Title IX.
I do not think very many people know that when I headed off to college, I played intercollegiate sports - basketball and fastpitch softball. In basketball I was a member of the 1977 Division I Championship Basketball Team. In softball, I was a four-year starter earning All-State honors my junior and senior years and captained the team my senior year. In 2009, I was inducted into the Pierz Healy H.S. Hall of Fame.
I really do not have much of a bucket list...maybe a little traveling (I’m really a home-body), hanging out with my family, siblings, and spending more time at the lake-doing nothing with husband Don and my children Adam and his wife Angela, Amanda and her husband Chad, Calvin and his wife Melissa along with our five grandchildren and one step-grandchild. Down the road I can see myself volunteering-giving back to this community.
I hope you can sense that I truly feel that I have had the best job in the world, working with and for the best people in the world. Will I miss it? Absolutely. But in my heart the time is right. I’ve got grandkids to love, cabin life to enjoy, and who knows maybe I will even become a traveler!! So, it is at this time I would like to express a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of you whose paths I have crossed. You have enriched my life beyond words.
