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LWSD Kimball to step down, take job in Singapore Kimball said. He explained that in dating, people have the opporr. Chip Kimball tunity to see how they feel will step down as about each other and see if superintendent for they want to get engaged and the Lake Washington School eventually, if they want to get District (LWSD) at the end of married. In the end, Kimball this school year. decided to tie the knot with It was announced Sept. 14 SAS. that the 2011-12 school year Board president Jackie will be Kimball’s final year Pendergrass said Kimball will with the district as he will be greatly missed in a statebecome the superintendent ment released Sept. 14. of the Singapore American “As a board, we are School (SAS) in Singapore, dismayed to learn that Dr. beginning July 1, 2012. Kimball will be leaving us “It was possibly one of the while at the same time we are most difficult decisions I had happy for him and his family to make,” Kimball in their new endeavtold the Reporter ors. His leadership has Sept. 15. been instrumental in He said leaving the strong direction of the district was not our district. The good even on his radar news is that he will when SAS first leave the district in a approached him very good position.” Dr. Chip Kimball early this summer. As for a new suKimball, who is perintendent, LWSD in his 16th year communications director with LWSD, initially told the Kathryn Reith said, “the school no, but they were not board has yet to determine deterred. how they will go about hiring “They hunted me down, a replacement.” pretty persistently,” he said. “They asked me again.” Kimball discussed the offer with his wife and friends who have worked in international SAS is a private K-12 settings. He said he has alschool with four campuses, ways spoken about globaliza- serving about 4,000 students. tion, international relations Kimball said the school’s and preparing students to demographic is roughly 70 compete internationally, percent American students so he decided, serving as a su- and 30 percent local and perintendent overseas would international students. be a great opportunity to He said SAS is truly an experience this firsthand. American school in Asia, So he decided to begin both in population and curinitial discussions with SAS. riculum. “It’s kind of like dating,” [ more KIMBALL page 7 ] BY SAMANTHA PAK
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(From left to right) Amelia Koning, age 2, cheers on mom, Karlie Koning, while Macie Looney, age 5, and sister, Shelbey, 7, cheer on their dad, Kyle, during the ninth annual Kirkland Triathlon at Marina Park on Saturday. For the full story, see page 13. RACHAEL HARRIS, Special to the Reporter
New Allied Health Building opens for students Lake Washington Insititue of Technology cuts ribbon on $35 million facility BY CARRIE WOOD cwood@kirklandreporter.com
Hundreds of students, staff, elected state and local officials, and even several former Lake Washington Institute of Technology presidents gathered in the lobby of the school’s new state-of-the-art Allied Health Building for a grandopening ceremony on Sept. 14. The new 83,000-squarefoot, three-story building features classrooms, laboratories, offices, clinical facilities and a lecture hall that will be a major boon to allied health studies. “We are gathered in one
of the state’s most technologically advanced, cuttingedge polytechnic education buildings here at Lake Washington,” said Dr. David Woodall, LWIT interim president. He noted that the new classrooms and laboratories simulate actual hospital settings and will provide the backdrop for training that will help meet the regional demand for nursing and allied health employees. “We’ve incorporated the latest in technology in this building, cameras that broadcast images to the classroom, allowing faculty and students to observe, review and learn in ways
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Dr. David Woodall, LWIT interim president (left) and other school and state officials tie the ribbon to celebrate the school’s new Allied Health Building on Sept. 14. CARRIE WOOD, Kirkland Reporter they haven’t been able to do before,” said Woodall. He also recognized and thanked three former LWIT
presidents who attended the event: Dr. Donald Fowler (1980-1999), Dr. L. Michael [ more HEALTH page 2 ]
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