"What a loss."
Marlene Dodyk is just one of several Wayland Public Schools employees who came out Monday morning to bid farewell to Pat Tutwiler, principal of Wayland High School for the past six years.
Tutwiler announced his resignation in late June after being offered the opportunity to serve as headmaster at Brighton High School.
On Monday, colleagues, students, parents and friends gathered in the WHS Media Center for a drop-in farewell gathering.
"Intelligence, commitment, student-focused, respectful..." Dodyk said, describing Tutwiler. "He really wanted what was best for the kids."
Dodyk is director of student services for Wayland Public Schools and said she had many opportunities to work with Tutwiler on ways to best serve a wide variety of students with diverse needs.
"He created a real sense of teamwork," Dodyk said, "and looking at kids as being on a journey and helping them develop as people, as a community, and looking at the skills they'd need for the future."
Superintendent Paul Stein said the search for an interim replacement is ongoing, but progressing well. A search for a permanent replacement will take place over the next year.
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