Board of Education Names Healthy Schools Task Force Members
December 3, 2002 - The Wake County Board of Education today
named 28 members to a Healthy Schools Task Force to examine
a variety of educational issues that will impact the future
of public education in Wake County.
Board chair Kathryn Watson Quigg said Dick Daugherty and Dudley Flood have agreed to co-chair the task force and plan to hold the first meeting of the task force next week.
Daugherty retired from IBM in 1994, having devoted 22 of his 37 years at the company as its senior executive in North Carolina. He spent the next six years developing NC State's Centennial Campus as executive director of the NC State University Research Corporation. Daugherty worked for the successful passage of the $250 million bond campaign for Wake County school construction in 1995, and served with his wife as honorary chairs of the Wake Education Partnership's 2002 fundraising drive.
Dr. Flood was a school principal, teacher and coach who devoted 21 years of service to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. He retired in 1990 as associate state superintendent of education and went to work as executive director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators until 1996. Since then, he has been a lecturer and consultant.
"Our community has made education a priority, and this commitment has helped our children enjoy tremendous success. Nearly 90 percent of our students are working at or above grade level, and last year's high school seniors had the highest SAT scores of any Wake County class," Quigg said. "There is still more that can be done to improve our school system, and we are looking to the task force to help us identify ways to better serve all of our children, giving each child the chance to succeed academically and be well prepared for college."
The task force will be asked to examine a list of issues including, but not limited to:
- Academic success for all Wake County students;
- Diversity in schools;
- Capacity utilization of existing and future facilities;
- Community expectations of our public school system.
"We want to provide every student a chance to be successful in life," Superintendent Bill McNeal said. "Dick Daugherty, Dudley Flood and the task force will study issues, listen to the many voices in our community, and then offer recommendations to the board to help the school system better serve all of our children."
The Healthy Schools Task Force will hold its first meeting on Dec. 12, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Harriet B. Webster Professional Development Center, 4401 Atlantic Avenue, Raleigh.
Healthy Schools Task Force Members
December 2002
- Dick Daugherty, co-chair - Former vice president of world-wide manufacturing for IBM, who retired in 1994 after 37 years of service. Daugherty served as executive director of the NC State University Research Corporation, focusing on the development of Centennial Campus. He also serves on many industry boards and on numerous voluntary and charitable boards including UNC Healthcare, Research Triangle Foundation, Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science and NCCBI. In 1995, Daugherty ran the $250 million bond campaign for the Wake County Public School System's building program. He and his wife recently served as honorary chairs for the Wake Education Partnership's fundraising drive.
- Dudley Flood, co-chair - Retired school administrator, who began his career as a teacher of math, science and English at the eighth-grade level. He later taught high school social studies and coached basketball and football. Flood served as a principal for three years before joining the N.C. Department of Public Instruction as a specialist in school desegregation and race relations. During his 21 years of service with DPI, he also served as assistant and associate state superintendent. After retiring from DPI, he served as executive director of the N.C. Association of School Administrators. He currently serves as a lecturer and a consultant.
- Nadine Baccellieri - Parent and PTA president at Penny Road Elementary School.
- Becky Brady - Parent, substitute teacher and PTA president at Dilllard Drive Elementary School.
- Roxie Cash - Former chair of the WCPSS Board of Education.
- Wanda Denning - President of the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce.
- Barbara Freedman - Parent of two Enloe High School graduates and past PTA president at Ligon Middle School.
- Patti Gillenwater - Chair of Ligon Middle's Business Alliance, board member for Communities in Schools of Wake County and president and CEO of ELINVAR.
- Ricki Grantmyre - Chair of the N.C. League of Women Voters.
- Dr. Tony Habit - President of the Wake Education Partnership.
- Debra Horton - PTA president and member of the Southeast Raleigh High School
- Board Advisory Committee, the Governor's Report Card Task Force and the State Superintendent's Advisory Committee.
- Janet Howard - Interim director for programs to enhance preparation for N.C.
- State University's Office of Diversity & African American Affairs.
- Jim McClure - Chairman of the Garner Education Foundation.
- Lori Millberg - Chair of WCPSS's Board Advisory Council, District 1.
- Doug Miskew - Account director for Capital Strategies.
- Mike Mitchell - Attorney and partner at Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan.
- Dr. Tammie Moore - Parent of students attending year-round schools, staff psychologist with Wake County Human Services and a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Liz Parry - Parent and program manager for N.C. State's K-12 Engineering Teaching Fellows Program.
- Hilda Pinnix-Ragland - Vice president of the Northern Region for Progress Energy and member of the State Board of Community Colleges.
- Ervin Portman - Member of the Town of Cary's Planning and Zoning Board.
- Rev. Marion Robinson - Reverend of Saint Matthew AME Church and vice president assistant comptroller of financial systems for the State Employees Credit Union.
- Joel Rosch - Research scholar and policy liaison for the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
- Curt Stangler - Parent and retired businessman with a major global consulting firm.
- Keith A. Sutton - Founder and president/CEO of the Triangle Urban League.
- Ralph Thompson - Parent, manager for Turner Construction and member of the WCPSS Board Advisory Council, District 3.
- George Wait - Parent, PTA member and member of WCPSS's student assignment advisory committee and the Board Advisory Council.
- Reuben Young - Parent and deputy legal counsel for the Governor's office.
- Marco Zarate - President of the N.C. Society for Hispanic Professionals.
- Walt Sherlin, staff liaison - WCPSS associate superintendent for operational services.