Valley Elementary, which will open for the new academic year. Cheryl Koury, who was principal of Canyon Lake High School, has moved to Comal ISD’s Community Education Department. Chelsy Merrill, former academic dean of Smithson Valley High, now serves as an assistant principal at Mountain Valley Middle School. Lori Montelongo has left Mountain Valley Middle School, where she was an assistant principal. She now works in the district’s Legal Services Department. Alan Reaves, assistant principal of Rahe Bulverde Elementary, retired at the end of the school year. Sharon Richardson, most recently principal of Rebecca Creek Elementary School, has retired after 26 years with the district. Teresa Rodgers has been named principal of Kinder Ranch Elementary School. Lauri Schroeder has transferred from her position as principal of Timberwood Park Elementary School to Canyon Middle School, where she will be an assistant principal. Kathy Thomas, most recently assistant principal of Freiheit Elementary, now leads Morningside Elementary as principal. Brian Uriegas, former assistant principal of Canyon Middle School, is now principal of Morningside Elementary. Patti Vlieger, former principal of Canyon Middle School, now serves as assistant principal of Comal Discipline Center and the Comal Academy. Corbee Wunderlich has been named principal of Canyon Lake High School. He was most recently principal of Alamo CollegesMemorial Early College High School. Copperas Cove ISD Dina Edgar has been selected to serve as executive director of business services. She most recently held the same position in Leander ISD and previously worked in the private sector and in school districts in New York. Robert Edmonson will retire in August as chief financial officer. He began his career as a social studies teacher and soccer coach in Killeen ISD, going on to become administrative assistant to the superintendent. He then spent a year as a school finance specialist with the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., before coming to Copperas Cove ISD in 1993. He also has been an educational data analyst with Impact Aid, a training and consulting service, since 2000. Edmonson earned his bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown and his master’s degree in education from Tarleton State University. After leaving Copperas Cove ISD, he will begin a new career working for the Episcopal Church in Killeen and as a chaplain in an area hospital. Corpus Christi ISD Longtime educator and Carroll High School Principal Eddie Chachere retired in
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June, capping a 32-year career.
Corrigan-Camden ISD Superintendent Thomas Bowman brought an education career spanning 39 years to a close when he retired at the end of June. Bowman, the son and grandson of Texas school district superintendents, spent the past 13 years with Corrigan-Camden ISD. The district’s new superintendent is Sherry Hughes, a graduate of Corrigan-Camden ISD schools who has worked at Corrigan-Camden High School for the past 17 years. Cumby ISD Shelly Slaughter, former principal of Lone Oak High School in Lone Oak ISD, is the district’s new superintendent. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Cy-Fair High School head baseball coach Woody Champagne had his 600th career win in April when the Bobcats defeated Cypress Springs High, 3-1. Wrapping up his 39th season of coaching high school baseball, he began his career at Aldine ISD’s Eisenhower High, where he remained for six years before joining Woody Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. He Champagne
has been with the district for 33 years. Irene Ruiz, assistant principal of Moore Elementary School since 2010, is now leading Robinson Elementary as principal. Prior to joining the district, she was an elementary bilingual teacher in Northside ISD and a kindergarten and second grade teacher in Arlington ISD, where she also served as assistant principal of Wimbish Elementary. Ruiz holds a bachelor’s Irene Ruiz degree in communications from The University of Texas and a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy studies from The University of Texas at Arlington. Cypress Ridge High School head coach and athletic coordinator Gary Thiebaud is a new member of the Greater Houston Football Coaches Association’s Hall of Honor. He was inducted during the GHFCA spring awards ceremony at the University of Houston. He has been with the district for 19 years and has 35 years of teaching and Gary Thiebaud coaching experience. See WHO’S NEWS on page 19
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