Date: Fri 07-Aug-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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New NHS Asst. Principal Named

Superintendent of Schools John Reed has announced the appointment of Susan A.

Battersby of Westport as assistant principal of Newtown High School. She will

fill a vacancy in the high school administration created when Marilyn

Capizzano accepted a position as principal of Yorktown High School in

Yorktown, N.Y.

Ms Battersby comes to Newtown from the Darien school system, where she was

chairman of the high school science department and a science specialist for

all grade levels in the Darien system. In those positions, she was responsible

for program review, curriculum assessment, staff development, technology

implementation, and program coordination at all grade levels.

The new assistant principal is a graduate of Duquesne University in

Pittsburgh, where she majored in biology and minored in chemistry. She got her

MS is secondary education at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and her

sixth year diploma in educational administration at UConn.