Newly Announced Searches

August 2005

St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Rector (Head of School) search for July 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.

July 2005

The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Head of School search for July 2006. Terry Macaluso is the lead consultant.

June 2005

	Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant for the Head of School search for The Louisville Collegiate School in Kentucky. The search is for July 2006.
	Holland Hall in Tulsa, OK, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Head of Upper School search for July 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.

May 2005

	Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, CO, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Head of School search for July 2006. Terry Macaluso is the lead consultant.
	Warren-Walker Green Valley Academy is conducting a Head of School search for July 2006. Art Merovick is the lead consultant.

April 2005

	Art Merovick is the lead consultant in the Head of School search for Colorado Rocky Mountain School. The position is for July 2006.
	Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, TX, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Head of School search for July 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.
	Hammond School in Columbia, SC, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a Head of School search for July of 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.
	Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, NJ, is conducting a Head of School search for July of 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.

March 2005:

	Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Valley Forge, PA, has retained Wickenden Associates to conduct a search for President for July 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.
	Evergreen Country Day School in Evergreen, CO, is conducting a Head of School search for July 2005. Terry Macaluso is the lead consultant.

February 2005:

	Cannon School in Concord, NC, is conducting a Head of School search for July 2006. Jim Wickenden is the lead consultant.
	Lakeside School in Seattle has launched a search for a Middle School Director for July 2005. Jim Wickenden is conducting the search.
	Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, NV, has retained us to conduct its search for a K-8 Division Director for July 2005. Terry Macaluso is the lead consultant.

January 2005:

	Art Merovick is the lead consultant in the search for a Head of School at Community School in Sun Valley, ID. The search is for July of 2006.
	Wickenden Associates has been retained to conduct a Head of School search for St. Croix Country Day School in the Virgin Islands. The search is for July of 2006. Lead consultant Jim Wickenden will be visiting the school in March to launch the search.

 

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Search Announcement

July 2005
 

Valley Forge Military Academy and College has announced the appointment of Interim President Tony McGeorge as the new President, effective immediately. This concludes the search that was to have been conducted during the coming year. We offer our congratulations to both VFMA&C and Mr. McGeorge.

Newly Announced Appointments

May 2005: Congratulations to:

	Evergreen Country Day School in Evergreen, CO, on the Head of School appointment of Benjamin J. Jackson,  Assistant Head & Head of the Upper School at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, RI.
	Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, NV, on the appointment of new K-8 Director Roy V. Parker, J.D., who is currently the Head of Middle School at Sewickley Academy in Sewickley, PA.
	Lakeside School in Seattle, WA, on the appointment of Martin S.C. Thompson, Academic Dean of Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, as the new new Middle School Director.

March 2005: Congratulations to:

	St. Thomas School in Medina, WA, which has appointed its new Head of School,  Kirk M. Wheeler, Ed.D., Lower School Principal of the American School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	The Walden School in Pasadena, CA, which has appointed Matt Allio, a teacher at The San Francisco School and the former Head of Live Oak School in San Francisco, as its new Head of School.
	The Westerly School of Long Beach, CA, which has appointed as Head of School William J. Valenta, the current Head of Hickory Day School in Hickory, NC.
	Woodlynde School in Strafford, PA, which has appointed Hench Murray, former Head of School at Woodlynde, to be the Interim Head for the 2005-06 school year
	Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (UWC-USA) has announced the appointment of Lisa A.H. Darling, Head of School at Wilmington Friends School, to be the next President.

February 2005: Congratulations to the following schools and their new appointees.

	Kef Wilson, Upper School Head at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School, has been appointed to the position of Head of the Upper School at Saint John's School in Houston.
	The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA, has appointed Joe Sciuto to the position of Upper School Principal. He has been serving this year as acting Upper School Principal.
	H. Michael Hughes, Ph.D., President, Chief Executive Officer, and Head of School at Riverside Military Academy, has been appointed the next Head of Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain in Las Vegas, NV.
	Bridges Academy in Sherman Oaks, CA, has announced its appointment of Carl Sabatino, Upper School Director at Lawrence Woodmere Academy, to be the next Head of School.

January 2005: Horace Mann School in Riverdale, NY, has announced the appointment of its new Head of School. We offer our congratulations to the school and to its newly appointed Head, Thomas M. Kelly, Ph.D., who is the Superintendent of Schools of the Valhalla Union Free School District in Westchester, NY.

December 2004: Congratulations to TASIS The American School in England on the appointment of James A. Doran, Ed.D., as the school's next Headmaster.  Dr. Doran is the Administrative Director of Stetson University's Celebration Campus in Florida.

November 2004: Three more searches have closed in the past week. Congratulations to these newly announced 2005 appointees and our client schools:

	Susan R. Lindsay, Acting Head of Jackson Preparatory School (MS), has been appointed permanent Head of the school.
	Thomas W. Nammack, Upper School Head at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PA, will be the next Head of Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ.
	Michael A. Murphy, Head of Pace Academy in Atlanta, has been appointed to lead Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, FL.

November 2004: Congratulations to our client schools and their newly announced 2005 appointees:

	Fred Assaf, Principal of LaSalle College High School in Wyndmoor, PA, newly appointed Head of Pace Academy in Atlanta, GA.
	Don Firke, Assistant Head and Dean of Faculty at Choate Rosemary Hall, newly appointed Head of The Latin School of Chicago.
	Michael Kyle, Principal Gifts Officer and Director of Corporate Relations at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, newly appointed as Vice President and Dean of Enrollment for St. Olaf.

Additions to the Leadership Library

November 2004: Please visit this section of our website, where you'll find speeches and articles we've prepared over the years on a broad range of topics of interest to trustees, senior administrators, and aspiring school leaders. New this month is:

Creating the Future: New Challenges for Boarding Schools, an article by Jim Wickenden.