PEOPLE - Brief Article

School Administrator, April, 2000

Deborah D. Fite

The new superintendent of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice School District, a statewide school system for incarcerated youth, is Deborah Fite. Previously she held positions of assistant superintendent for instruction, director of instructional technology and alternative school principal in the Newberry County, S.C., district.

Bernard Hamilton Jr.

Bernard Hamilton Jr. has assumed the position of associate commissioner of the office of supportive learning environments in the Kentucky Department of Education. Previously he served as superintendent of the West Point, Miss., School District. Hamilton also worked as a principal in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nev.

Linda Henke

After 10 years as assistant superintendent of the Clayton, Mo., School District, Linda Henke will assume the superintendency of the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District in Maplewood, Mo. She earlier was the director of curriculum for the West Des Moines, Iowa, school district and a language arts coordinator in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

K. Ed McKinney

The Arkansas State Board of Education has named K. Ed McKinney as the assistant director for school improvement and instructional support at the Arkansas Department of Education. Earlier he was superintendent of the Van Buren, Ark., School District. McKinney also served as a regional marketing manager for Jostens Learning Corp.

Linda M. Peters

After two years as supervisor of curriculum and instruction at Donegal School District in Mount Joy, Pa., Linda Peters has moved into the superintendency of the district. Earlier she was an elementary principal in the Central Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa. Peters also worked as a teacher of elementary, secondary and gifted education.

Mary Stansky

Following a four-year stint as director of curriculum and instruction for the Lower Camden County Regional High School District 1 in Atco, N.J., Mary Stansky has assumed the superintendency of the Gloucester City, N.J., district. Previously she was an assistant principal in Haddon Heights, N.J. Stansky also was a principal and music director.