"I still remember taking my first computer class from him," said Tech Committee Chair Toni Freeman, fondly recalling Norwegian native Bjorn Moseng's influence on Pomona "I can still remember making him repeat 'First you boooot the disk' because I loved his accent." After 27 years of working here, Moseng is going to retire once the year is out.

Moseng joined the Pomona community as a math teacher one year after the school opened and has been working to help students, and to expand their computer skills along with the Pomona network, ever since.

When he arrived in 1974, the school had only one real computer and two typewriters; now there are, as Moseng said with some gratification, "somewhere between three and four hundred computers that are all networked together." Moseng has been Pomona's Network administrator since the system's inception.

He was also the man who brought soccer to the Pomona community. Jumping into coaching it in his first year at the school.

At the moment, teacher Tim Murray is assisting the coaching of girls' soccer, Moseng hopes that next year Murray will return to head the organization. "It will be a great loss to us when he leaves," said Murray of his colleague

Moseng has also had two daughters attend Pomona in the time that he has taught/worked here.

Although he "loves Colorado," Moseng is now looking forward to spending his time travelling, sailing, and working within the computer industry.

Freeman, sad to see him go, bemoans the loss of a man who "did the work of at least seven" in keeping up Pomona's network. "He fought tooth and nail to fix up the system and keep it current," she said, and describes it as "pieced together" due entirely to Moseng's hard work.

After he leaves, the school will most likely hold interviews for someone to fill the void but "it will be really hard to find someone to fill his shoes," Freeman said.

Moseng said he is confident that he will keep in touch with the numerous friends he has made at Pomona in the past but may take a job overseas as a change of pace.