John Burns has been
in the Saugus School system as student, teacher, educator, department
head, director of curriculum, etc., for more than seventy years.
Still active as curriculum director as he winds down more than
sixty-one years of educating Saugus youth, Burns generates the
energy to direct the compiling A Gathering of Memories. He graduated
from Saugus High in 1934, Boston College in 1938, with a Masters
Degree in 1946, after service as an officer in the U.S. Navy
in World War II. He is an avid reader, book collector, and has
been hailed by hundreds and hundreds of former Saugus students
as the best teacher they have ever had at any level.
