Harrisonburg City-limits Schools Administrator Dr. Donald Ford has appear to his ambition to retire at the cessation of the 2009-2010 academy year. The advertisement comes afterwards a affair of the city-limits academy lath Monday night.
Ford came to Harrisonburg 12 years ago to activate his administration as administrator of the city-limits schools.
In his notification to the academy board, Ford writes, “While I looked advanced at that time to a abiding accord with Harrisonburg City-limits Schools, I could not accept predicted that I would abide actuality for able-bodied over a decade. These 12 years accept been challenging, but aswell both alone and professionally rewarding. I accept formed in Harrisonburg with some of the finest agents and administrators I accept anytime met, and I am adequate that so abounding of these individuals will abide to abetment the next administrator beforehand the attitude of arete we accept in our schools.”
Ford’s career in apprenticeship began in 1972 as a abecedary and drillmaster in Bedford County, Virginia. He has served as a teacher, coach, abettor principal, principal, abettor administrator and administrator during his 37 years of experience. In 2007, he was called as Virginia’s Administrator of the Year. He aswell served as admiral of the Virginia Association of Academy Superintendents for 2007-2008.
Just over three and a bisected years ago, Ford asked the lath to extend his arrangement until June 30, 2010, at which time he would be acceptable for abounding retirement beneath the Virginia Retirement System. The lath accustomed that appeal and afresh continued an allurement to abide alive above this academy year. However, while cogent acknowledgment for the offer, Ford abreast the lath Monday night that he was respectfully declining.
“I am, therefore, appointment my apprehension of retirement to you now to accommodate the lath with affluence of time to conduct a acceptable seek for my successor,” said Ford to the board. “I am appreciative of all that our committed academy lath members, academy staff, parents, association and, a lot of importantly, acceptance accept able back 1997 and I will leave the academy analysis next summer beholden to accept been a allotment of one of the finest academy capacity in the state.”
Members of the academy lath bidding their acknowledgment to Ford for his years of account in Harrisonburg and thanked him for accouterment added than seven months of beforehand apprehension to adapt for a administration transition. The lath will now activate developing a plan for administering a seek for the academy division’s next superintendent.
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