La Jolla
John C. Littlefield will become headmaster of La Jolla Country Day Shool July 1, replacing Tim Burns, who will move to a private school in New York after nine years in the post, the school announced Wednesday. Littlefield has been headmaster of the University School of Milwaukee since 1986 and previously served 12 years at the Breck School in Minneapolis.
Littlefield, who speaks Chinese, Russian and French, specialized in international studies, focusing on the Pacific Rim. He comes to Country Day, an independent coeducational school with 750 students from kindergarten through the 12th grade, after a period during which the school faced unusual tensions over the firing of teacher Sharon Rogers. She was dismissed after her car was firebombed last year in a possible terrorist incident in La Jolla. Rogers is the wife of the U.S. Navy captain whose guided missile cruiser Vincennes mistakenly shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf in 1988.
The school also faced an unsuccessful attempt by some teachers to organize a labor union.
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