July/August Newsflash
Comings & Goings . . .
Wendy Beetlestone, general counsel, to depart Aug. 5, to join the law firm of Hangley, Aronchick, Segal and Pudlin. . . . Greg Amiriantz, top administrator at Charter High School for Architecture and Design, retired June 30. Serving as interim head of the school will be Peter Kountz, former head of the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, N.Y. . . . Felecia Ward joins the Office of Communications as a media relations manager. . . . Tim Spreitzer, deputy chief of staff to CEO Paul Vallas, departs for the office of State Rep. Dwight Evans. . . .
Principal
comings & goings
RETIRING from
their school posts are the following principals:
Rochelle Agris, Hancock
School (to be replaced by Rosemary
Cataldi);
Ruth Anderson, Duckrey
School;
Christine A. Black, Ellwood
School (to be replaced by Bettie
Klekley);
Diane Branch-Jones, Fulton
School;
Elizabeth K. Byrd, Gideon
School (to be replaced by Ruth
Victoria Pressley);
P. Karen Hill; Bodine
High (to be replaced by Ann Gardiner);
Saundra Hopkins, McMichael
School (to be replaced by Angela
Edwards);
Adrienne Jacoby, Lowell
School (to be replaced by Rochelle
Bock);
Kathleen H. Lacey, Sulzberger
Middle School (to be replaced by Adrienne
Wooden);
Clarence A. Martin, Vare
Middle School (to be replaced by Patricia
Cox);
Joanne Nichols, Alexander
Wilson School;
Ann Rivera, Morrison
School (to be replaced by Christopher
Byrd);
Susan E. Shucker, H.A.
Brown (to be replaced by Juliette
Pennyman);
Judith C. Simkins, Dunbar
School;
David D. Strolle Jr.,
South Philadelphia High (to be replaced
by Kevin King);
Charla Sussman, Dobson
School (to be replaced by Kerri
McGinley).
Other principal assignments include the following: Yolanda Armstrong, Pepper . . . Newton Brown, Olney East . . . Marilyn Carrion, DeBurgos . . . Mary Dean, Mastbaum . . . Sharon Glodek, Pennypacker . . . Karen Jackson, Roosevelt . . . .Anna Jenkins, Cook-Wissahickon . . . Richard Jenkins, FitzSimons . . . Florence Johnson, Lamberton High . . . Yvonne Jones, Motivation. . . Ernest Lowe, Jones . . . Eileen Maicon, Kensington International Business . . . Robert Manning, Elverson Military . . . Adele Pride, Kensington CAPA. . . Denise Richardson, Webster . . . Rosalyn Sample-Green, Franklin Elementary . . . Jill Silverstein, Southwark . . . Vera White, Clymer . . . Mollie Williams-Lee, Daroff . . . Reuben Yarmus, Kensington Culinary . . . . Over 50 principal vacancies in all are being filled.
“Comings & Goings”
is a feature of the Notebook Newsflash
that reports personnel changes within
the institutions and organizations that
focus on public education in Philadelphia.
We welcome any knowledge you’d like
to share on recent or upcoming personnel
moves. E-mail us at sheilas@thenotebook.org.




