New Board Member Sought

Today's Journal....

School board seeks member
Resignation accepted for board member elected in November

MIDDLETOWN — The Middletown Board of Education has begun the process of filling the vacancy following Alan Whitt’s resignation

Those who are interested in serving on the board are asked to submit a letter of interest that includes background information and qualifications to board president Marcia Andrew by next Tuesday, Jan. 17.

Applications can be emailed to Andrew at mandrew@middletown
cityschools.com or dropped off at the board office at 1515 Girard Ave.

Andrew said the board will review the applicants and then appoint a fifth board member within the allotted 30-day time frame. The individual who is appointed will serve for two years, and will need to seek re-election in November 2013

HOW 'BOUT YOU SPIDER OR MIKE P? ACCLARO, YOU WOULD MAKE A GREAT MEMBER. I REALIZE ALL HAVE LIMITED TIME TO SPARE. ALL THREE HAVE COMMON SENSE, GREAT IDEAS, ARE FRUGAL WITH MONEY.......PLEASE CONSIDER. PERHAPS SOME OTHER MUSA FOLKS, MAYBE RETIRED, COULD APPLY.

• Also at Monday’s meeting, Andrew was elected board president, a role she’s served the previous two years. Chris Fiora was elected as vice president.

“I thank the board for the vote of confidence,” Andrew said, “and I look forward to another year of progress for the school district and another year of working well together

CONGRATULATIONS TO MS. ANDREW AND MR. FIORA ON THE APPOINTMENTS. BOTH ARE CONCERNED ENOUGH DESPITE THEIR BUSY SCHEDULES TO SERVE. WE MAY DISAGREE, SOMETIMES TO THE POINT OF ARGUING, BUT YOUR SERVICE IS STILL APPRECIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS. I WANT TO SEE THE MIDDLETOWN SCHOOLS IN THE POSITION THEY WERE IN YEARS AGO. IT WOULD BE A PLEASANT THING TO SEE. IT IS A SHAME THE CITY HAS DECIDED TO LURE ALL OF THE LOW INCOME FOLKS TO TOWN, LOWERING YOUR ABILITY AND CREATING HARDSHIPS FOR YOU TO SUCCEED. THEIR GHETTO MENTALITY AND ALL THAT IT REPRESENTS HAS NOT HELPED YOUR CAUSE. PLEASE CONSIDER THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX ON NEW INITIATIVES TOWARD MOVING IMPROVEMENT ALONG AT A FASTER PACE.

Ms. Andrew:

Please accept my congratulations on being chosen to serve as board president for another term.

I echo your and VietVet’s sentiments that we all have the same goals (great schools at the lowest possible coast) but may have different ideas about how to reach those goals.

Lastly, both you and Mr. Fiora are to be commended for having the fortitude to face the fire here on this sight.  Your efforts to try to include all Middletonians, and not just a select few, in the dialogue about the workings of our community set a great example for elected officials.  It is sad that members of city council do not follow your lead.  All citizens are supposed to be equal, and we have very few other opportunities to voice our opinions without censorship.

Today's Journal...

Twelve apply for Middletown school board seat

MIDDLETOWN — Twelve individuals have applied for the vacant board seat on the Middletown Board of Education

The 12 applicants are: Tom Brickey (former board member); Dora Bronston (Middletown Area NAACP Chapter president and director of Solid Rock Bible College); Matthew Dixon (attorney); Fred Gibson (former newspaper publisher); Todd Moore (director of education, Trinity Debt Management); Cathie Mulligan (former Fenwick High School principal); Eugenia Palmer (retired from Madison Local Schools); Ted Pollard (former newspaper editor); Fred Sennet (former board member); DeAnna Shores (Miami University Middletown adjunct instructor); Chris Urso (Miami University adjunct professor) and Scott Warman (HR partner, IBM

SEE SOME RECYCLED NAMES IN HERE.....TOM BRICKEY WHO'S MADE THE ROUNDS ON ALMOST EVERY BOARD AND COMMITTEE OFFERED. HOW EFFECTIVE IS THIS GUY? I BELIEVE FRED GIBSON HAS RUN OR SERVED. GOOD OLD FRED SENNET IS STILL GIVING IT THAT OLD COLLEGE TRY. OLD FRED HAS CERTAINLY BEEN RECYCLED AND THEN RECYCLED AGAIN. REMEMBER FRED BEING ON VARIOUS BOARDS AND ON COUNCIL. COULD WE HAVE ANOTHER MULLIGAN SITTING BEHIND A DESK? CATHIE, WHO TAUGHT ME CALCULUS BACK IN 1966 AT MUM, IS TRYING TO JOIN HER SONS LAWRENCE THE THIRD AND JOE FOR A PLACE IN THE SUN HERE IN GOOD OLD MIDDLETOWN. THEN AGAIN, THREE MAY BE TOO MANY MULLIGANS FOR THIS TOWN TO HANDLE. BRONSTON WILL REPRESENT THE 2nd WARDERS IF SELECTED. SHE'S QUITE ACTIVE IN CITY AFFAIRS AND CAN BE OUTSPOKEN AT TIMES, WHICH IS NOT ALL THAT BAD, IMO. DIDN'T URSO RUN FOR SOMETHING RECENTLY? DON'T KNOW THE REST.