New officers will lead NSBA for 2006-07 term
4/25/06 -- On the final day of the NSBA Annual Conference, E. Jane Gallucci, a member of the Pinellas County, Fla., school board succeeded to the presidency of NSBA for the 2006-07 term.
Norman D. Wooten of Kodiak, Alaska, who had been secretary-treasurer of NSBA during the previous year, was elected to the position of president-elect by the Delegate Assembly at its meeting on April 7 just before the start of the Annual Conference.
Joan E. Schmidt of Fairfield, Mont., who had been the 2005-06 president of NSBA, will continue to serve on the NSBA board as immediate past president.
In the only contested race, the Delegate Assembly elected NSBA board member Barbara L. Bolas secretary-treasurer of NSBA.
Bolas, a member of the Upper St. Clair, Pa., school board, was recommended by NSBA’s 2006 National Nominating Committee.
She was opposed by NSBA board member William R. Meek of Bucyrus, Kan., who had been nominated by the Kansas Association of School Boards.
During its April 7 meeting, the Delegate Assembly elected or re-elected to the NSBA Board of Directors:
• Northeast Region -- Anne M. Byrne of the Nanuet Union Free District in Pearl River, N.Y.
• Northeast Region -- Anthony L. “Tony” Wong of Elkton, Md.
• Central Region -- Earl C. Rickman II of Mount Clemens, Mich.
• Southern Region -- C.H. “Sonny” Savoie, a member of the St. Charles Parish, La., school board.
• Western Region -- Dan J. Covolo of the Uinta County school district in Lyman, Wyo.
• Pacific Region -- Kerry B. Clegg of the Sulphur Springs Union Elementary School District in Canyon County, Calif.
During the conference, the National Caucus of Black School Board Members elected Mildred Tatum, a member of the Pulaski County Special District in Little Rock, Ark., as chair. She serves as an ex officio member of the NSBA board.
The new chair of the National Caucus of Hispanic School Board Members, Lillie Mae Ortiz, of the Pojoaque Valley Schools in Santa Fe, N.M., also is an ex officio member of the NSBA board.
Deryl W. Wynn, a school attorney in Kansas City, Kan., and the new chair of the Council of School Attorneys, serves as a non-voting ex officio member of the NSBA board.
Also serving on the NSBA board in an ex officio non-voting capacity is Robert Rader, the new chair of the Federation Member Executive Directors’ NSBA Liaison Committee and executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.
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