PEOPLE - superindendent job placements - Brief Article

School Administrator, May, 2000

Peter T. Kachris

After a 12-year stint as superintendent of the Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Medina, N.Y., Peter Kachris has moved into the superintendency of the Special School District of St. Louis County, Mo. He earlier worked in the Auburn, N.Y., Enlarged City School District as superintendent and principal.

Kathleen Keusenkothen

Kathleen Keusenkothen has been selected as the first female superintendent to lead the St. Charles, Mo., City School District. Keusenkothen is leaving the Mehlville School District in Sr. Louis, where she served as an area superintendent and earlier as the assistant superintendent of human resources. She previously was a principal.

Monte Littell

Monte Littell has assumed the superintendency of the Peoria, Ariz., Unified School District, the fourth largest district in the state. He has served for the past two years as the superintendent of the Everett, Wash., School District. Littell earlier worked as deputy superintendent and associate superintendent in Tucson, Ariz.

Rhoda R. Pierre

Rhoda Pierre has been appointed to the superintendency of the Amityville, N.Y., Union Free School District. She began her career in Amityville in 1989 as the assistant to the superintendent for personnel. Pierre also held positions as assistant superintendent for instruction and personnel and interim superintendent. Earlier she was a principal.

James A. Williams

James Williams is the new deputy superintendent of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Md. He comes to the post after eight years as superintendent of the Dayton, Ohio, Public Schools. Williams also was deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent for intermediate/secondary instruction in Dayton.

David S. Walk

The Vermont Department of Education has appointed David Wolk as the new commissioner of education. Wolk, who chairs the AASA Resolutions Committee, had been superintendent of the Rutland, Vt., City School District for 3 1/2 years. He also worked as assistant superintendent and principal in Rutland and served as Rutland County state senator.

APPOINTMENTS

TRANSITIONS

Linda J. Bigos, from assistant superintendent, Derry Township School District, Hershey, Pa., to superintendent, East Pennsboro Area School District, Enola, Pa.

John Chandler, from high school principal, Dansville, Mich., to superintendent, Litchfield, Mich.

Judy Dobbert-Meloy, from superintendent, Albion, Mich., to superintendent, Whitehall, Ohio

Priscilla Feir, from superintendent, Muncy, Pa., to superintendent, Perkiomen Valley School District, Collegeville, Pa.

Robert Foster, from director of curriculum and instruction, Pen Argyl, Pa., to superintendent, Palmerton, Pa.

James Francis, from superintendent, Wilson County School District, Lebanon, Tenn., to superintendent, Lexington School District 2, West Columbia, S.C.

Terry Grier, from superintendent, Williamson County Schools, Franklin, Tenn., to superintendent, Guilford County School District, Greensboro, N.C.

Alberta Griffiths, from acting superintendent to superintendent, Hanover, Pa.

Frederick E. Hackett, from assistant superintendent to superintendent, Stroudsburg, Pa.

Robert F. Harris, from superintendent, Delaware Valley Central School District, Callicoon, N.Y., to superintendent, Benton, Pa.

Jerry Klenke, from superintendent, Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center, Mansfield, Ohio, to deputy executive director, Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Columbus, Ohio

Rainey Knight, from interim superintendent to superintendent, Darlington, S.C.

Joseph Majchrowicz, from superintendent, Brookfield, Ill., to superintendent, Sunnybrook District 171, Lansing/Lynwood, Ill.

George Edward Norris, from superintendent, Kingsport, Tenn., to superintendent, Nash-Rocky Mount School District, Rocky Mount, N.C.

Alan Rasmussen, from superintendent, Hermosa Beach, Calif., to superintendent, Merced, Calif.

Jim Ray, from deputy superintendent, division of district and community services, South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia, S.C., to superintendent, Spartanburg School District 3, Glendale, S.C.

Linda Sanborn, from assistant superintendent to superintendent, Freeland, Mich.

Edward Sarver, from assistant superintendent, Pine-Richland School District, Gibsonia, Pa., to superintendent, Southern Lehigh School District, Center Valley, Pa.

Charles A. Scott, from superintendent, Council Rock School District, Richboro, Pa., to superintendent, West Chester, Pa.

Carol M. Strange, from acting superintendent and principal to superintendent, Westmont Hilltop School District, Johnstown, Pa.

George Szymanksi, from superintendent, Pine-Richland School District, Gibsonia, Pa., to director of educational services, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mary Ward, from superintendent, In-gram, Texas, to superintendent, Dripping Springs, Texas

RETIREMENTS

Ralph P. Bell, superintendent, Quogue, N.Y.

William D. Bigos, superintendent, Columbia, Pa.

Clyde Ellsworth, superintendent, Lackawanna Trail School District, Factoryville, Pa.