Paul Fredrick Sitz ’60

Paul Fredrick Sitz ’60 passed away on September 20, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. Paul was born in Chicago on March 23, 1939. At Dartmouth he was in the college band for four years and served as its manager and was a member of DOC, Green Key, and the Handel Society. He graduated with an A.B. in international relations and then earned an M.F.A. in graphic arts from the University of Chicago in 1962. Paul began his teaching career in Tanzania, working there from 1962 to 1965. Paul was a renaissance man. In 1967 he married Gareth Mann, and the two of them moved to Elgin, Illinois, where he taught art at Elgin Academy, ceramics and sculpture at Judson College, and art and sociology at Streamwood High School until his retirement in 2003. Paul served as technical director of the theater, designing sets and lighting schemes for productions. Paul was also an artist, working in a variety of media and creating modernistic sculptures and ceramics. In the last years of his life, Paul concentrated on photography. Paul was also a skilled musician, and he played the organ for worship and trombone for special services in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, where he was a member for 43 years. He also sang in a variety of choirs, including his wife’s synagogue, Congregation Kneseth Israel, and the Elgin Master Chorale. Paul is survived by Gareth, three children, and five grandchildren.