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Stanley Sipka, BS ’64, MEd ’74, Tallmadge, OH, wrote, “I taught at Cuyahoga Falls High School for 33 years, retiring in 1997. I just had my book, Memoirs of a Shop Teacher, published by Balboa Press. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Balboa Press.”
Sue Mossman, BA ’69, Pasadena, CA, executive director of Pasadena Heritage, received the California Preservation Lifetime Achievement award in an online ceremony on Oct. 21, 2020. The award honors outstanding preservation efforts.
Mossman has worked for Pasadena Heritage for 41 of the organization’s 43 years, starting as a volunteer. She has served as the organization’s executive director for the past 26 years. Prior to that, she served as program director, development director, volunteer coordinator, newsletter editor and in other positions with the organization. The organization works to identify, preserve and protect the historic, architectural and cultural resources of Pasadena through advocacy and education.
Mossman is well known in the community as a champion of preserving historic resources, a member of various advisory bodies, a popular speaker and a passionate and effective preservation advocate. The early days of the organization focused on Old Pasadena, the Colorado Street Bridge, the Civic Center and city neighborhoods.
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she traveled widely with her family, spending years in southern France, Bangkok and Rome. She graduated from Kent State with a major in English and moved to Southern California in 1969. Since 1976, she has lived in a Craftsman home in Pasadena’s Madison Heights neighborhood, where she was a successful neighborhood advocate before joining the Pasadena Heritage staff.