Mount Pleasant (Texas) school chief offered three-year contract at $151,000 a year.

Terry Myers, superintendent of the Mount Pleasant (Texas) Independent School District, was named superintendent of Clovis Municipal Schools following a three-hour school board special session Wednesday night, the Clovis News Journal reported.

Myers, who was offered a three-year contract with a base salary of $151,000, will replace Rhonda Seidenwurm, who announced in January that she would leave at the end of the school year after five years with the district, the News Journal said.

Seidenwurm was earning an annual salary of $138,700 when her contract was last renewed in 2008, according to the News Journal.

Myers, 54, has been superintendent at Mount Pleasant for five years and has held similar positions in four other Texas school districts, the paper reported. He also has served as a teacher, coach and principal.

He is scheduled to begin in Clovis on Aug. 1, after he reaches a resignation agreement with the Mount Pleasant district, the News Journal said.

The other finalist was Tim Powers, assistant superintendent with the Wichita Falls (Texas) Independent School district, the paper reported.

12:25pm 6/23/10 — Two Clovis School Superintendent Candidates
Returning for More Interviews: School board decided to bring two of the
four candidates back for the additional interviews.

Two of the four candidates to become the next superintendent of Clovis Municipal Schools will be back in Clovis next week for additional interviews, the Clovis News Journal reported.

The newspaper said the school board decided Tuesday to call back Mount Pleasant (Texas) Independent School District Superintendent Terry Myers and Wichita Falls (Texas) Independent School District Assistant Superintendent Tim Powers for further interviews.

Powers, 55, will be interviewed by the board at 5:30 p.m. on Monday and Myers, 54, will be interviewed at 5:30 p.m. next Wednesday, according to the News Journal. The interviews will be at the administration board room and will be conducted in closed executive session.

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:04

Four candidates to become the next superintendent of Clovis Municipal Schools have been selected and will be in Clovis for interviews on Thursday and Friday, the Clovis News Journal reported.

The newspaper said the four, all from Texas, are Dalhart Independent School District Superintendent David Foote, Pampa Independent School District Superintendent Barry Haenisch, Mount Pleasant Independent School District Superintendent Terry Myers and Wichita Falls Independent School District Assistant Superintendent Tim Powers.

The current Clovis superintendent, Rhonda Seidenwurm, announced in January that she would resign at the end of the school year after five years with the district, according to the News Journal. Her last day is June 25.

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 07:25

The Clovis Municipal Schools board of education, after intially promising to announce a new superintendent by today, decided Tuesday to continue its search for someone to replace retiring Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm, the Clovis News Journal reported.

Following a 3 1/2-hour executive session Tuesday, the board said it would continue to “aggressively search for the position of superintendent of schools during the next three months,” the News Journal said.

The decision came after three finalists for the position were interviewed last week.

Board president Mark Lansford said the board was not comfortable making a decision at this time, but wouldn’t specify why, the News Journal said.

“We’re going to look at options, which could include looking at an outside search firm and retracing our steps,” Lansford told the paper.

3:10pm 3/22/10 — Three Finalists for Clovis Schools Superintendent To Be Interviewed This Week: School board scheduled to announce its selection by March 31.

The school board plans to interview three finalists for Clovis Municipal Schools superintendent on Thursday and Friday, the Clovis News Journal reported.

The newspaper said those finalists are Fort Sumner Municipal Schools Superintendent Patricia Miller, Douglas (Ariz.) Unified School District Superintendent Earl Pettit and Clovis schools Deputy Superintendent of Operations Joel Shirley. The board is scheduled to announce by March 31 its selection to replace Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm, who has resigned.

The News Journal reported that a fourth finalist, Texico Schools Superintendent R.L. Richards, has withdrawn from consideration.

Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:30

The Clovis school board has narrowed the field from 21 applicants to four finalists to replace outgoing Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm, the Clovis News Journal reported.

The finalists are: Fort Sumner Schools Superintendent Patricia Miller; Douglas, Ariz., Unified School District Superintendent Earl Pettit; Texico Schools Superintendent R.L. Richards; and Clovis Deputy Superintendent of Operations Joel Shirley, the News Journal said.

School board memer Lora Harlan, who is spearheading the process for the board, said it was a coincidence that three of the four finalists were local, the paper reported.

The board will conduct interviews on March 25 and 26 and announce its decision by March 31, according to the News Journal.

8:40am 3/3/10 — 27 Apply for Clovis Superintendent Post: School board plans to announce finalists by March 12, announce new supt. March 31.

Twenty-seven people have applied to become superintendent of Clovis schools, and the school board plans to announce finalists and schedule interviews by March 12 and make its choice by March 31, the Clovis News Journal reported.

Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm announced on Jan. 13 that she would be leaving at the end of the school year, the News Journal said.

Clovis School Board President Lora Harlan said the board is excited about the number of candidates, saying it was a higher number than those who applied five years ago when Seidenwurm was hired, the paper reported.

Among the applicants currently serving as school superintendents elsewhere are Texico Schools Superintendent R.L. Richards; Mescalero Apache Schools Superintendent Gorman Swinney; Superintendent Earl Pettit of the Douglas (Ariz.) Unified School District; Baker Valley Unified School District Superintendent Mark Kemp of Baker, Calif.; and Fort Sumner Municipal Schools Superintendent Patricia Miller, the News Journal said.

Former Taos Superintendent Loretta DeLong was among the applicants, as well as Santa Fe Principal Dan Webb (who earlier served as principal in Los Lunas); Alamogordo Principal Leslie Kilmer; Maxwell Principal Thomas Lewis, Roswell High Principal Andrew Sweet; and Hatch Valley Public Schools Principal James Dale Fitch, according to the list.

The complete list of applicants is in the News Journal article.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010 18:35

Clovis Municipal Schools will soon be looking for a new superintendent.

Superintendent Rhonda Seidenwurm resigned Wednesday, effective June 30, the Clovis News Journal reported.

The newspaper said Seidenwurm, who was hired in April 2005, signed a two-year, $138,700-a-year contract in June 2008.

Lora Harlan, president of the Board of Education, said the board will decide next week the process and timeline for hiring a new superintendent, the News Journal reported.

Seidenwurm said the school district is preparing to begin a phase of redoing every building, according to the newspaper. But she said construction is not her area of expertise and isn’t what she wants to do.

Seidenwurm, who describes her strength as understanding teaching and learning, said because she saw what was coming, she and her husband had decided last summer that it was time to move back to Albuquerque, the News Journal reported.

The newspaper said that according to Harlan, Seidenwurm had indicated to the board as early as last summer that she thought this would be her last year.

Harlan said Seidenwurm had taken the district in a lot of good directions over the past five years and the board appreciated what she had done for the district.