Newman set to lead state school boards
Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007
Perry Newman, president of the Lavaca School Board, is the newly elected president of the Arkansas School Boards Association.
And the organization has named Jack Gardner of Glenwood as the 2007 winner of the Dr. Daniel L. Pilkinton Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education.
Newman, a native of Lavaca and director of gas control and dispatch for Arkansas Oklahoma Natural Gas in Fort Smith, has been on the Lavaca School Board since 1994.
In addition to his involvement with the local board and state organization, he has served on an advisory committee to the Arkansas Department of Education regarding public school facilities. He is a member of a National School Boards Association’s study committee on prekindergarten education.
He and wife Sandy have three daughters and three grandchildren.
Gardner, the Pilkinton award recipient, was first elected to the Glenwood School Board in 1986 and he remained on the School Board when Glenwood and Amity school districts later merged to form the Centerpoint School District. His board membership ended last year.
His long involvement within the state organization is highlighted by the fact that he is the only person to serve three times as president.
Gardner manages the General Insurance Agency. He and his wife, Linda, a schoolteacher at Lake Hamilton, have one adult son.
Gardner has served as city recorder and served on the Glenwood Fire Department for 23 years, 13 as chief.
The Arkansas School Boards Association is a not-for-profit organization that has provided programs and services to the state’s locally elected school boards for more than 50 years. Other officers this year are Cathy Allen of Rogers, president-elect; Gene Bocekmann of Wynne, vice president; Wayne Gibson of El Dorado, secretarytreasurer; and Amy Daniel of Benton, past president.
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