School board names new teachers, coaches, and staff
Retiring elementary teacher Eileen Butler and bus driver Joan Jost were honored for a combined 71 years of service at the June 12 meeting.
Other action by the USD 410 Board of Education included contract offers to the following new teachers:
— Mickey Harvey, to serve as a technology teacher at Hillsboro Middle School and Hillsboro High School. Harvey, who taught technology at Sedgwick High School last year, will teach technology, technical drawing and communications technology.
Harvey also will manage Channel 45, the school community access television station, and will co-sponsor the Technology Student Association. Harvey and his family live in southern Marion County.
— Sharon Jost, to serve as a half-time Title I teacher, and also as a half-time employee of the district.
— Claire Overstake, to serve as a fifth-grade teacher. Overstake, who taught sixth grade for the past seven years at Fort Scott Middle School, is the wife of Grant Overstake, editor of the Hillsboro Star-Journal.
— Ellynne Wiebe, to serve as the Title I instructor at Hillsboro Elementary School. Wiebe, who has been the gifted paraprofessional in the elementary school for the past several years, replaces Michelle Goldsby as Goldsby moves to second grade.
Before coming to Hillsboro, Wiebe taught in a bilingual classroom in Denver, Colo. She also has been on the faculty at Tabor College.
The board also finalized the hiring of Shelli Elliott to serve as the new TEEN director. She comes to the district after serving as a technology integration specialist in the Maize school district.
The board approved a classified employee contract for Lisa Mayfield to be a new high school secretary.
Supplemental coaching contracts for the 2006-07 seasons were awarded to:
— Keli Chisholm to serve as assistant high school girls' basketball coach.
— Doug Dick to serve as assistant middle school football coach.
— Dale Honeck to serve as the head girls' basketball coach.
— Jim Robb to serve as an assistant track coach.
Resignations were accepted from food service employees Norma Cabeen and Vicki Hiebert and high school secretary Tracy Isaac.
No action was taken on classified employee contracts or administrative salaries, pending the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling on the school finance plan, expected in July. The board postponed taking action until a July 26 special board meeting.
In other business, the board began to consider ways to re-draw board member districts to comply with new guidelines handed down by the 2006 Kansas Legislature.
While taking no action, the board asked Superintendent Gordon Mohn to investigate various options, assuring equitable representation for rural and city residents.
Crash causes outage
A one-vehicle accident on 190th Road Sunday evening caused an electrical outage in Marion for nearly an hour.
Wallace L. Kasper, 83, Newton, was westbound on 190th, west of Old Mill, at 5:25 p.m. when he either fell asleep or had a medical problem. According to Marion County Undersheriff Randal Brazil, Kasper was driving a 2004 Ford Ranger pickup when it entered a south ditch and struck a utility pole.
Lifeteam flew the injured driver to Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, where he remains in critical condition.
