(Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondant, Published on September 13th, 2024 at 5:49 A.M.)

(Hopewell Township, PA) Eugene (Gene) Karmazyn, 88, of Hopewell Township, a retired Aliquippa teacher has passed away on Thursday, September 12, 2024. After retiring from the Aliquippa School District in 2003, Eugene taught drama, was a play director, and was in charge of the class of 1966’s Commencement Program. According to the family, a banner and a will be placed at the Black Box Theater in his honor along with a plaque outside the Black Box Theater. The theater will also now be renamed the Gene Karmazyn Black Box Theater.