SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2019 Teacher carves out a life in Saugus By Thor Jourgensen ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — Carmine Moschella retired in 1993. But don’t tell the 91-year-old: Moschella goes to Sau- gus High School every Tuesday, and sometimes several days a week, to teach furniture making and wood carving. “I love going to work every day. It’s self satisfac- tion for me and, I hope, for other people,” he said. Surrounded by power tools in the high school woodshop that Carmine Moschella were new when Moschella start- ed teaching there in 1956, he carves creations as small as wood Easter Gun scare triggers KIPP lockdown bunnies holding little baskets with room enough for a piece of candy or a marshmallow and larger pieces Parents By Thor Jourgensen dent who was the main focus of the The main entrance like bookshelves and wood-wheeled and Bella diGrazia investigation eventually admitted to to KIPP Academy wagons. voice ITEM STAFF bringing a BB gun to the school over Lynn Charter School “At Christmas, this place looks like a week ago, he said. is guarded by police LYNN — KIPP Academy Lynn Police recovered the BB gun during during a lockdown Santa’s woodshop,” said Carl Puleo, concern Charter School told parents all stu- a Melrose resident who signed up a search of the student’s home on on Friday due to a dents and faculty are safe after a re- with Moschella three years ago to Friday, Kmiec said. No arrests have report that a student over port came in of a student with a gun hone his woodworking skills with been made and no charges are being had a gun on campus. Moschella. school’s on campus on Friday. sought at this time. Parents, at right, were The class is offered through the At 9:54 a.m., a KIPP student re- KIPP followed procedure and kept away from the Saugus Senior Center with Tuesday, safety ported to faculty that another stu- went into lockdown, according to school while police 10 a.m. to noon, as the of cial class dent had a gun on campus, according the school’s email to parents. Police conducted a search of day and time. But Moschella often to an email to parents obtained by reportedly responded to the school the building. works in the shop located at the the Item. within two minutes and secured the rear of the school more than one day Lynn Police Lieutenant Michael building. Students were interviewed ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON Kmiec said there was no sighting of SAUGUS, A3 a gun at the school Friday. The stu- KIPP, A3 Football Basketball coach Matt Son joins father English mentor coach Anto- Durgin will at Lynn Classical scores at Lynn Tech nio Anderson be inducted Durgin and will be in- into the Lynn By Steve Krause By Harold Rivera ducted into Classical Hall ITEM STAFF ITEM SPORTS EDITOR the Lynn of Fame. Tech Hall of LYNN — Matt Durgin had a special rela- Anderson LYNN — Antonio Anderson has been on Fame. ITEM PHOTO | tionship with his father. cloud nine for the past few months. OWEN O’ROURKE Hal Durgin was still alive when his son In March, Anderson coached the English ITEM FILE PHOTO | became the head football coach at Lynn coached their boys basketball team to its rst Division SPENSER HASAK Classical in 1997. Every time Classical 1 state championship since 1939 and was played, the son would drive to the bright named Northeastern Conference Coach of red house on Cedar Street and go over the ways into the Year. In April, Anderson was named game with his father, play by play. USA Today’s All-USA Massachusetts Boys Durgin took over a program that was in halls of fame Basketball Coach of the Year. Anderson, 33, transition, and the rst year was a challenge. will take a trip down memory lane Saturday DURGIN, A3 ANDERSON, A3 Beyond Walls looks INSIDE Peabody beyond downtown Enrollment down at high school. A2 By Bella diGrazia $50,000 before they can ITEM STAFF get it up and running. LOOK! Five-story art instal- Reading is fun for LYNN — Beyond Walls Harrington School lations on the sides of has a vision for Lynn’s wa- students. A8 terfront. storage containers, per- The creative nonpro t formance spaces and a Sports has partnered with Mass- multi-purpose eld for Classical baseball Development and the civ- futsal, a ve-on- ve style bests crosstown ic crowdfunding platform of soccer similar to hockey, rival English. B1 Patronicity to build a tem- and basketball will all be porary waterfront park at a part of the project if they Rivera: Lynn the Lynn Ferry Terminal, can get the funds, said schools had a banner according to a press re- A rendering depicts The Launch, an arts and recreation space envi- sports year. B1 lease. They need to raise DOWNTOWN, A3 sioned by Beyond Walls for the Lynn waterfront. OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 69° VOL. 141, ISSUE 137 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ...............................B7 LOW 54° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2019 OBITUARIES Ellen V. Bernard, 77 James E. Pashby, 83 Catherine Z. McCormack, 90 1935-2019 BELMONT, N.H. — Ellen V. SWAMPSCOTT — James in Swampscott. TOPSFIELD — Mrs. Catherine Auger Bernard, 77, a resident E. Pashby, “Jim,” age 83, of Jim is survived by seven Z. (Boudette) McCormack, for- of Belmont, N.H., passed away Swampscott, passed away on nieces and nephews, Chris- merly of Saugus, age 90, died Saturday, May 11 at Riverside May 4, 2019 after suffering tine, Robert and Steven Keffe- on Tuesday, May 14 peacefully Rest Home in Dover, N.H., due from a stroke and heart attack ler of Texas, Margaret Kain of at home surrounded by her to complications from demen- resulting from a severe fall at Alabama, Christopher Pashby loving family. She was the wife tia. home. of Washington, D.C., Karen of the late Henry McCormack Born in Lynn, Ellen was pre- Jim was born in Swampscott Pincheck of Michigan and Jan- Jr. deceased by her husband, on Oct. 3, 1935. Like all of his et St. Lawrence of Maryland. Born and raised in Revere, Norman J. Bernard and her brothers and sisters, Jim at- Service information: A fu- she was the daughter of the brother-in-law, Robert Ber- tended St. Mary’s High School neral Mass will be held on late Clayton and Mary (White) nard. She is survived by her in Lynn before receiving his Saturday, July 13 at 10 a.m. Boudette. She graduated from daughter, Dr. Kim Schnurbush; Bachelor of Science degree at St. John the Evangelist Immaculate Conception, Class and her sister, Marilyn Ber- from Boston College. Jim was Church, 174 Humphrey St., of 1947 as salutatorian and nard; along with her nieces, the last of eight children of the Swampscott. Burial will fol- class treasurer. She raised her Diane Chick, Nancy Bernard, late Ethel (McLean) and the low at St. Joseph Cemetery, family in Saugus and was wid- Laurie Whitney and Kristie late Albert Pashby, a journal- Lynn. Arrangements are un- owed at the age of 47. Bernard; and her great-neph- ist and city editor of The Lynn der the care of CUFFE-MC- She worked in the Saugus ews, Nathan Bernard, Daniel Daily Evening Item. GINN Funeral Home, Lynn Public School system as a Whitney and Matthew Whitney. requests donations be made Jim spent 28 years as a vice (781) 599-3901. In lieu of secretary and librarian for nephews; sister of the late Ellen graduated from Lynn to the Riverside Rest Home, president of operations for the flowers, donations may be more than 20 years. Catherine Irene and her late husband Al English High School and spent Unit 5, 276 County Farm South Shore National Bank. made in memory of Virginia was known as Sis, Kay and Guidara, the late Richard and many years working for the Es- Road, Dover, NH 03820, in His great passions were New Pashby to Care Dimensions Mrs. Mac. Her family was the his wife Theresa Boudette, sex Trust and Bank in Massa- both Ellen and her dog Am- England’s two top winners, Hospice, 75 Sylvan St., center of her life and she loved the late Robert and his late chusetts. She also spent sev- ber’s memory. The family ex- “his” Red Sox and the Patriots. #B102, Danvers, MA 01923 attending all their events. She wife Molly Boudette, the late eral years working for Velcro, tends the deepest of gratitude In his younger days, Jim loved or via www.caredimensions. would often be found behind Francis and his wife Lillian U.S.A. in New Hampshire. After to the Unit 5 staff of Riverside to boat near his Swampscott com. To share a memory or home plate at many softball (Chickie) Boudette. Also pre- retiring, she lived in both Flori- Rest Home. Without them, El- home or on Lake Winnipe- leave online condolences games, keeping the “offi- deceased by her great-grand- da and New Hampshire. len’s final days would not have saukee in New Hampshire. please visit www.cuffemc- cial” score. She put everyone daughter Katherine Smith. Ellen was a gourmet cook, been so comfortable and pain Golf rounded out his outdoor ginnfuneralhome.com. ahead of herself. She was a In lieu of flowers donations enjoyed socializing with her free, and for that, we will al- sports, as long as he could strong, fearless woman of re- in her memory may be made friends and family, had a keen ways be eternally grateful.