PEOPLE

School Administrator, Sept, 1998

Daniel D. Drake

Dan Drake has been promoted from associate professor to professor of educational administration at Cleveland State University. Earlier, he was community superintendent in Milwaukee, assistant superintendent in Sioux Falls, S.D., and a high school principal in Cleveland. Drake is a former AASA advisory committee member.

Roberta Ann Jackson

After seven years as superintendent in Charlevoix, Mich., Roberta Ann Jackson has moved into the top berth of the Richmond, Mich., Community Schools. Earlier, she was superintendent of the Edinburgh, Ind., schools, and director of vocational education in Washington Township and Kokomo Center in Indiana.

Brian Lockard

A 33-year career in the Carroll County, Md., schools has come to an end for Brian Lockard, now coordinator of the graduate school for school administration at Western Maryland College in Westminster, Md. Lockard spent four years as superintendent and started in Carroll County as an elementary school teacher in 1965.

Estanislado Paz

AASA's National Academy for School Executives has a new director in Stan Paz, who spent the last 7 1 /2 years as superintendent in El Paso, Texas. He previously worked as associate superintendent in Dallas and deputy superintendent in Tucson, Ariz.. Paz was Texas Superintendent of the Year in 1993-94.

H. Fred Pomeroy

After 29 years as a superintendent in six districts, Fred Pomeroy has become executive director of the New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators. Since 1995, he was superintendent in Los Lunas, N.M. Earlier, he held the top spot in Roswell, N.M. (twice), Tucumcari, N.M., Soldotna, Alaska, Silver City, N.M., and Las Vegas, N.M.

Ralph Wallace

Ralph Wallace has become superintendent of the Ridgefield, Conn., Public Schools following a six-year stint in the same post in Cheshire, Conn. He also was superintendent in Granby, Conn., for four years. Wallace also has experience as a middle school principal. He is a former Connecticut superintendent of the year.

TRANSITIONS

APPOINTMENTS

Steven J. Adamowski, from associate secretary of education, Delaware Department of Education, to superintendent, Cincinnati, Ohio

Francis Barnes, from superintendent, Huntingdon, Pa., to superintendent, Palisades School District, Kintnersville, Pa.

Frank Cleary, from superintendent, Fort Bragg, N.C,, to senior program associate, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.

Christine Donnell, from assistant superintendent to superintendent, Meridian, Idaho

Eric L. Eversley, from superintendent, Proviso Township School District, Maywood, Ill., to superintendent, Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Parchogue, N.Y.

Edward Fisk, from superintendent, Seneca Falls, N.Y., to superintendent, Moscow, Idaho

John M. Graves, from superintendent, Oconomowoc, Wis., to superintendent, South Redford School District, Redford, Mich.

Diana D. Greene, from superintendent, Haldane Central School District, Cold Spring, N.Y., to superintendent, Tonawanda, N.Y.

Martin Handler, from superintendent, Camden, N.Y., to superintendent, Sullivan BOCES, Liberty, N.Y.

Darroll Hargraves, from superintendent, Alaska Gateway School District, Tok, Alaska, to executive director, Alaska Council of School Administrators, Juneau, Alaska

Richard Hoffmann, from executive assistant, Lawrence, Mass., to superintendent, North Attleboro, Mass.

Paul W. Kelleher, from superintendent, Westport, Conn., to superintendent, Lawrence, N.Y.

Randy McCoy, from superintendent, Clinton, Miss., to superintendent, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

John Messelt, from education director, Benton-Stearns Education District 6383, Sartell, Minn., to superintendent, Kimball, Minn.

Roger Rueckert, from superintendent, MacCray Schools, Clara City, Minn., to superintendent, Zumbrota-Mazeppa School District 2805, Mazeppa, Minn.

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

Jane A. Schumacher, from assistant superintendent to deputy superintendent, Community Unit School District 300, Carpentersville, Ill.

Tom Truitt, from superintendent, Florence, S.C., to executive director, Pee Dee Education Center, Florence, S.C.

RETIREMENTS

William J. Bach, superintendent, Caesar Rodney School District, Camden, Del.

Bill Bergum, administrator, Cooperative Educational Service Agency #1, West Allis, Wis.

Edward (Bud) Bowes, superintendent, North Penn School District, Lansdale, Penn.

Bob Haley, superintendent, Meridian, Idaho

Salvinus Hoffert, superintendent, Grygla, Minn.

Thomas A. Jokubaitis, superintendent, Wolcott, Conn.

Wayne Jones, superintendent, Port Jefferson, N.Y.

Steven McPhetres, executive director, Alaska Council of School Administrators, Juneau, Alaska

John Myers, superintendent, Marion County Schools, Fairmont, W. Va.

J. Larry Newton, superintendent, Baldwin County Schools, Bay Minette, Ala.

Edward Sagarese, superintendent, Marlboro, N.Y.

Theodore L. Soistmann Jr., superintendent, Ephrata, Pa.

Richard Swantz, superintendent, La Crosse, Wis.