Schoharie School Losing 120 Years of Experience to Retirements

By David Avitabile

SCHOHARIE - Schoharie Central School will be losing 120 years of experience at the school of the school year.

School board members Thursday evening accepted the retirement resignations of six long-time employees.

Retiring at the end of the school year will be:

* Elementary school teacher Mary Bates who has worked at Schoharie for 10 years.

* Elementary school reading teacher Terri Blum, who has taught at Schoharie for 23 years.

* High school guidance counselor Teresa Kenyon, who has worked at Schoharie for 27 years.

* Speech-language pathologist Lori Johnson, who has been at SCS for 17 years.

* High school teaching assistant Sharon Larson, who has worked at Schoharie for 15 years.

* Elementary school teacher Maryanne Hammond who has taught at Schoharie for 28 years.

All retirements, except for Ms. Kenyon take effect on June 30. Ms. Kenyon's retirement takes effect on August 8.

The deadline to announce retirements was March 1.

In other personnel items, board members:

* Accepted the resignation of William Nichols, as junior-senior High School long-term substitute, effective retroactive to the end of the day on March 8.

* Accepted the resignation of Tashina Cummings as a bus aide, effective as of the end of the day on April 8 in order to accept a position as Office and Keyboard Worker. She was named as a probationary Office and Keyboard Worker, salary Step 3 $33,734 per SCEA Contract, eight hours/day, five days/week, 11 months, 48 week probationary, effective April 9.

* Accepted the resignation of Shane Scofield, as Maintenance Mechanic, effective as of the end of the day on March 24 in order to accept the position as Senior Custodian. Reached a memorandum of agreement with Mr. Scofield as a Senior Custodian. Mr. Scofield was appointed as a probationary Senior Custodian, salary Step 16 $56,653 plus Senior Custodian Stipend $2,971 per SCEA Contract, eight hours/day, five days/week, 12 months, 52 week probationary, effective March 25.

* Added the following people to the SCS substitute list at current sub rates: Caleigh DeBuccio, non-certified,, effective retroactive to February 11, and Alyssa Scarlata, non-certified, effective retroactive to February 11,

* Added three people to the Capital Region BOCES Teacher Substitute Calling Service list, Approve, at current sub rates, effective March 22,

* Appointed Shawn Gathen as JV baseball coach for the spring season at a salary of $2,790.