PEOPLE

School Administrator, Nov, 1998

Mable E. Gaskins

Mae Gaskins has joined the 12,000-student Lawrence, Mass., district as superintendent following a 14-month stint as an assistant superintendent in St. Paul, Minn. Gaskins earlier worked for Education Alternatives Inc. for five years, most recently as senior vice president. She also has served as interim superintendent in Duluth.

Thomas R. Giblin

After a 10-year stint as superintendent in Guilford, Conn., Tom Giblin has moved into the superintendency in East Lansing, Mich. Giblin spent the previous 10 years as assistant superintendent for educational services in Widefield, Cob. He spent seven years on the faculty at the Colorado Springs campus of University of Colorado.

Arnold B. Goldberg

The 2,300-student Shoreham-Wading River Central Schools on Long Island have a new superintendent in Arnold Goldberg. He previously served as superintendent in three other Long Island school districts: Elmont, Hauppauge and Merrick.

William J. Liebertz

Skip Liebertz has assumed the top berth of the 7,500-student Corvallis, Ore., system after six years as superintendent in Lincoln County, Ore. Liebertz also has served as executive assistant to the superintendent of the Salem-Keizer, Ore., schools. He has taught at Portland State University and University of Oregon.

Virginia Rebar

Virginia Rebar has assumed the superintendency in Columbia, Conn. She served for six months as acting superintendent of the regional school district in Seventeen, Conn., following a 14-year tenure as the first principal of Haddam-Killing worth Middle School in Higganum, Conn. Rebar also was an assistant principal in East Lyme, Conn.

Stewart M. Weinberg

The Fairbanks, Alaska, Public Schools have selected Stewart Weinberg as the district's new superintendent. He had served in the same post in Lawrence, N.Y., since 1991 and was an adjunct professor at C.W. Post and New York University. Earlier, Weinberg was an assistant superintendent and high school principal in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

TRANSITIONS

APPOINTMENTS

Mariann W. Bertolini, from assistant superintendent to superintendent, Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union, Concord, Vt.

Robert Black, from superintendent, North Adams-Jerome School District, North Adams, Mich., to superintendent, Dundee, Mich.

Ken Bowe, superintendent, Shelby, Neb., to superintendent, Hot Springs, S.D.

Peter J. Dion, from superintendent, Birch Run, Mich., to superintendent, Grosse lie, Mich.

Harold Dodge, from superintendent, Cumberland, Va., to superintendent, Mobile, Ala.

Larry Ford, from superintendent, Ontonagon, Mich., to superintendent, Morrice, Mich.

Steven Gaynor, from assistant superintendent, Walled Lake, Mich., to superintendent, Royal Oak, Mich.

Don W. Haist, from assistant superintendent to superintendent, Greenville, Mich.

Gene Harstad, from superintendent, Wilmot, S.D., to superintendent, Bristol, S.D.

David Herbert, from Wabash, Ind., to superintendent, Franklin County Public Schools, Frankfort, Ky.

John Monahan, from superintendent, Fairbanks, Alaska, to coordinator of education leadership program, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska

Jay B. Newman, from assistant superintendent, Sturgis, Mich., to superintendent, St. Joseph County Intermediate Schools, Centreville, Mich.

Robert M. O'Brien, from assistant superintendent, Upper Arlington School District, Columbus, Ohio, to superintendent, Huron Valley Public Schools, Highland, Mich.

Tony Parker, from superintendent, Marlette, Mich., to superintendent, Sanilac Intermediate Schools, Sandusky, Mich.

Joseph P. Sabatella, from superintendent, Regional School District 14, Woodbury, Conn., to superintendent, Mahopac, N.Y.

William Spargur, from superintendent, Rossford, Ohio, to superintendent, Dexter, Mich.

Dorothy Suomala, from superintendent, Tri-County Schools, Karlstad, Minn., to assistant professor of educational leadership, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minn.

Eugene Thompson, from superintendent, Richmond, Ind., to superintendent, Huntsville, Ala.

Al Thoreson, from superintendent, Arlington, S.D., to superintendent, Edgemont, S.D.

Rene Townsend, from superintendent, Coronado, Calif., to professor of educational leadership, California State University, San Marcos, Calif.

Jim Weaver, from superintendent, Pacheco Elementary School District, Redding, Calif., to deputy superintendent, Shasta County Office of Education, Redding, Calif.

RETIREMENTS

Frank Ambrosie, superintendent, Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, Auburn, N.Y.

Jim Berry, superintendent, Tuscumbia, Ala.

Bruce Burritt, superintendent, Avon, N.Y.

David T. Elwood, superintendent, Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union, Concord, Vt.

Tom Giugni, executive director, Association of California School Administrators, Sacramento, Calif.

Dudley Hare, superintendent, Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Bill James, superintendent, Pleasanton, Calif.

Kathleen Kops, superintendent, Bellmore, N.Y.

Raymond Page, superintendent, Greece, N.Y.

Paul Sousa, superintendent, Mobile, Ala.

Ray Tolleson, superintendent, San Juan Unified School District, Carmichael, Calif.