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R.L. “Ozzie” Rose
R.L. “Ozzie” Rose helped start the Confederation of Oregon
School Administrators in 1974 and remained with the organization as the
executive director until his retirement in 2003. Before
taking the COSA position, Rose worked at AASA and spent a year on staff for the
National Academy of School Executives, then the association’s chief training
arm.
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Burke Royster
Burke Royster, superintendent of Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, has been immersed in AASA since he was a child. His father, Bill, was a former AASA president and 16-year superintendent who led the Anderston School District 5 through a "peaceful desegregation" in the mid 1970s.
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June Gabler
June Gabler is a trailblazer in AASA's history, having been the first woman to serve as the association's president in 1987-88. She started her career as a teacher in Detroit in 1952 and worked in all aspects of public and higher education during a 37-year career that included superintendent positions in Woodhaven, Mich. and Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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Anne Bryant and Tom Shannon
Tom Shannon and Anne Bryant led the National School Boards
Association for a combined 35 years from 1977 to 2012, a period in which more
and more attention has been paid to the relationship between superintendents
and the elected/appointed boards that hire them. Shannon’s relationship with
AASA dates to his time as a general counsel in the 1960s, and Bryant was NSBA’s
executive director from 1996 until 2012.
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Gary Marx
Gary Marx joined AASA in 1979 and is credited with ramping
up the organization’s communications and publishing efforts, including media
outreach, member surveys and the expansion of School Administrator into a monthly magazine.
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Sarah Jerome
Sarah Jerome spent 46 years in education, half of
that time as a superintendent in the Kettle Marine School District in
Wisconsin and in the Arlington Heights, Ill., district about 10 minutes
from O’Hare Airport. She was the second woman to be president of AASA.
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Paul Houston
Paul Houston served as AASA’s executive director
from 1993 to 2008, leading the organization through a tumultuous time
that saw Congress increase its role and authority over local schools,
national disasters such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and a move by
administrators toward more job specific training.
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Peter Corona
Peter Corona became an AASA member in 1959 and has attended
every annual conference since. A superintendent in various California districts
from 1960 to 2006, he has spoken at 39 AASA conferences and represented U.S.
education leaders on AASA-sponsored trips to the former Soviet Union and China.
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Bruce Hunter
Bruce Hunter, who spent three decades as AASA’s chief
lobbyist from 1982 to 2013, started work with the association 16 months before
the groundbreaking report “A Nation at Risk” was released. During his tenure,
he saw the association’s advocacy role become stronger and at times more
strident as the federal government became increasingly involved in K-12
education.
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Jack Jennings
Jack Jennings spent almost 30 years on Capitol Hill as
subcommittee staff director and then general counsel for the House Committee on
Education and Labor. He founded the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Education
Policy, a respected nonpartisan think tank that analyzes the impact of federal
legislation on K-12 schools.
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