October 21, 1997FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Trost)
RE: BOARD NAMES BROAD REPRESENTATION TO SUPERINTENDENTıS PROFILE COMMITTEE
The Board of Education today announced the names of the community and school district leaders, including youth representation, who will play a key role in the process to find the next superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District.
They form the Citizens Committee to Profile the Next Century School Superintendent which will be chaired by Richard A. Collato, the president and chief executive officer of the YMCA of San Diego County. Collato also chairs the Superintendent Search Committee, appointed by the board last week.
The first meeting of the Citizens Committee will be on October 31.
³This blue ribbon committee of local leaders will develop a profile of the skills and vision our community expects in the new superintendent,² Ron Ottinger, board president, said. ³I am very pleased that they have accepted the boardıs invitation to serve on this important committee.²
Committee members from the community are Municipal Court Judge Raphael Arreola; Ambrose Brodus, retired San Diego Urban League executive; Eugene Brucker, former interim superintendent who held many high administrative positions in the district prior to his retirement in 1985; Jerry Butkiewicz, executive secretary/treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial County Labor Council; Dr. Robert C. Dynes, chancellor of the University of California San Diego; Dennis Eaves, chairman of the district's Parent Involvement Task Force; Dr. Charles Edwards, a trustee of Scripps Health Systems, Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Institute of Medicine and Science; Augustine Gallego, chancellor of the San Diego Community College District;
Mel Katz, chair of the Business Roundtable for Education of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce and co-owner of Manpower Development; Dianna Navarro, member of the superintendent's Mexican American Advisory Committee and the Special Education Community Advisory Committee; Lynn Parke, a member of the Mayorıs Safe Schools Task Force; Regina Petty, former president of the San Diego County Bar Association and a partner in the law firm of Mazzarella, Dunwoody, Wilson and Petty; Margaret Iwanaga-Penrose, president and chief executive officer of the Union of Pan Asian Communities;
Kathleen Rice, executive committee member from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association; Fr. Henry Rodriquez, pastor of St. Judeıs Catholic Church; Rogelio Rosales, a student at Point Loma High School; Debbie Rinehart, president of the San Diego Unified Council of PTAs; Dr. Stephen Weber, president of San Diego State University, and Julie Meier Wright, executive director of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.
Educators from within the school district include Jan Gabay, former national teacher of the year and teacher at Serra High School; Regina Peck, counselor at Lindbergh/Schweitzer, and Godwin Higa, a 1996-97 district teacher of the year and a teacher at Dingeman Elementary School;
Carrie Peery, chair of the Elementary Principalsı Association and principal at Hamilton Elementary School; Dr. Shirley Peterson, president of the Administrators Association and principal at Morse High School;
Helen Wexelberg, first vice president of the CSEA chapter representing paraprofessional employees and an instructional assistant at Bird Rock Elementary School; Rosemary Willoughby, president of the CSEA chapter representing office, technical and business support employees and a clerk at Dana Administrative Center; John Colvin, president of the CSEA chapter representing operations support staff and a landscape technician in the district; Ray Hubbard, president of the School Police Officers Association and a campus police officer at Point Loma High School.
Forums will be November 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m at Serra High School; November 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Education Center Auditorium; November 8, 10 a.m-12 p.m. at Morse High School.
The committee will receive help from the community to develop the profile through a series of three open forums where San Diego residents will be encouraged to voice their opinions. ³This is vital to the process of selecting a new superintendent,² Collato said. ³If we are to find the best superintendent to lead our schools into the next century, the profile committee must receive input from as diverse a group of people as possible."
Community residents also will be able to access information on the superintendent search process through the districtıs web page at www.sdcs.k12.ca.us, by faxing information to Superintendent Search at 297-5624 or via e-mail to suptsrch@mail.sandi.net. Letters may be sent to Superintendent Search, San Diego City Schools, 4100 Normal St., Room 2231, San Diego, CA 92103-2682.
Information presented by citizens at the forums will be supplemented by information received from letters, faxes and e-mail and will be used by the citizens committee to develop a candidate profile to be used by the Superintendent Search Committee.
The search committee is working closely with Dr. Ira Krinksy, managing vice president of Korn/Ferry International, which was selected earlier this month as the recruitment firm that will conduct a nationwide search for the successor to Dr. Bertha O. Pendleton, who will retire in June.
Search committee members in addition to Collato are Malin Burnham, chairman of the board of John Burnham and Co.; Dr. Alice B. Hayes, president of the University of San Diego; William Jones, former San Diego City Council member and president and CEO of CityLink Investment Corp., and Dr. Ralph Ocampo, immediate past president of the California Medical Association and local physician and surgeon.
The Board of Education expects the search process to result in the selection of a new superintendent as early as March.
