HANOVER — SAU 70 has hired new principals for the Bernice A. Ray School and Frances C. Richmond Middle School.
Kelly Pease, who started her education career at Indian River Middle School in West Canaan and most recently served in a school district in Redmond, Wash., was hired to lead the Ray School, which serves Hanover students in grades K-5.
Timothy O’Leary, who started his career at Oxbow High School, in Bradford, Vt., will lead Richmond Middle School, which serves students from Hanover and Norwich, the two towns of the Dresden Interstate School District. O’Leary most recently worked as principal at Roxbury RPreparatory Charter School, which has three campuses in Roxbury and Dorchester, Mass.
The interim principals at both schools, Anissa Morrison, who has worked at Richmond since 1993, and Colleen Roy, of the Ray School, were the other finalists for the two jobs.
O’Leary replaces Tim Boyle, who departed Richmond last summer to become the first middle school principal at Oxbow. Boyle had been Richmond principal since 2019.
Pease replaces Lauren Amrhein, who serves as Ray School principal for eight years and is now director of curriculum and instruction in SAU 70.
The Dresden School Board held a special meeting Monday to approve O’Leary’s hiring.
The Hanover School Board approved Pease’s hiring on March 11, according to meeting minutes. Also at the March 11 meeting, Kelly McConnell was re-elected as chairwoman of the Hanover board.