RC board to begin search for superintendent/principal

RC school board president John Krajenta (at left) and interim superintendent Lee Sandy.
RC school board president John Krajenta (at left) and interim superintendent Lee Sandy.

by Angie Asam–Staff Writer

Rogers City Area Schools will soon have a posting ready commencing the search for a superintendent/principal.

According to a phone conversation Thursday morning (Oct. 22, 2015) with Rogers City Area Schools board of education president John Krajenta, the district will be advertising for a principal/superintendent position, however, it will not be specifying if that is an elementary or secondary principal.

The story that ran in Thursday’s Advance stated the district was going to begin a search for a new superintendent/”elementary” principal, but that is not necessarily the case, Krajenta said.

Katy Makowski resigned from the superintendent/elementary principal position in July and the district hired Lee Sandy as interim superintendent and Tammy Kuntz as interim elementary principal for the 2015-16 school year.

Last Monday Krajenta announced that the district would be advertising for a superintendent/principal in the near future. “We are setting up a posting for a superintendent/principal position. We will give the details of that a little bit later. We hope to complete the task by the end of January with interviews being held in January,” said Krajenta.

Sandy is a retired superintendent who formerly served school districts in Kalkaska, Vestaburg, Montabella, Pine River, Fife Lake and Waldron. He previously served in interim positions in AuGre-Sims, Saginaw, Leland, Gladwin, Beal City, Baldwin and Onekama. He retired from Kalkaska in July 2014 after starting with the district in 2006.

“I appreciate being here. Things have gone really well. I appreciate the board’s involvement and your frankness in talking to me, that’s appreciated. Hopefully I can help where needed,” said Sandy last week.

Kuntz came to the district from Kansas where she had spent 23 years with Topeka Public Schools where she taught for 22 years and was a literacy coach for one year. Kuntz came to Rogers City knowing that it was an interim position for the 2015-16 school year.

 

David O’Bryant currently serves as high school/middle school principal and is the district’s athletic director. He was hired as a secondary teacher of math and science in 2010 while also coaching girls’ varsity basketball (6-57 i

n three seasons). The board chose him as secondary principal for the 2011-12 school year, after the resignation of superintendent/secondary principal Jamie Huber in June 2011.  O’Bryant assumed the athletic director’s role for the 2013-14 school year replacing longtime athletic director and current wrestling coach Pat Lamb.

Posen Consolidated Schools hired a new administrator this week after John Palmer served as the interim superintendent for the district for two and one-half years. Michelle Wesner will take over as the superintendent and principal for the district after Thanksgiving break.