<b>Former Faculty Member Shares Alumni Successes</b>

The rewards of teaching can often be delayed. Teachers in secondary school focus on three or four years of students’ lives, watch them graduate, and may or may not keep in touch with them. For retired Millbrook math teacher, Jim Jordy, this has not been the case. He recently contacted the Alumni Office with news of two of the students he instructed at Millbrook, and the news is exciting indeed.

Mr. Jordy was pleased to report of his reconnection with former student Erik Boczko ’82 a few years back as Erik was earning a doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. They connected again in 2001 when Eric and his wife, Debbie, were offered positions at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Over time Jim and his wife, Sally, developed a close relationship with Erik and his family. They followed Erik’s professional progress from Case Western to Vanderbilt University, and to Georgia Tech where he pursued a second doctorate in mathematics. Mr. Jordy was proud to be in attendance when Erik defended his thesis entitled, “Polygonal Approximation of Flows.”Eric currently lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter, Sabrina, and practices “informatics” at Vanderbilt.