Steve came to the Naval Academy from Williamsport High School, Williamsport, PA where he was the valedictorian.  While at the Naval Academy, he received commendation in French and discovered a love of classical civilization.

He served as damage control officer on a mine sweeper patrolling our Gulf Coast and on a ship in the Persian Gulf.  He told of an occasion when he helped the Captain by conversing in French with a visiting dignitary who spoke no English.  No one was available who spoke the dignitary’s language.  Steve found the “lingua Franca” and was able to translate.  After four years in the Navy, he entered Rutgers University where he received a Master of Arts in Classics. He became a Latin teacher, first at a private school, then at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, NJ and then at Cresskill High School, Cresskill where he was employed at the time of his death. 

When the Latin program was dropped at Cresskill, he became a social studies/history teacher. His combination of Navy discipline, love of his subject and kind-heartedness endeared his to his students, their parents and the faculty.  He baked countless thousands of cupcakes and cookies for school fund-raising bake sales.  Although he never married and had no children of his own, his parents believe his students became his sons and daughters.

Local arrangements have been entrusted to Loutzenhiser-Jordan Funeral Home and cremation Services, Inc., 366-368 S. Main St. Greenville.