(KNZA)--A new Hiawatha High School principal has been hired.
Following an executive session at a special USD 415 Board of Education meeting Wednesday evening, Superintendent Lonnie Moser says the Board voted to hire Lori Fordyce for the position.
Fordyce was offered a one-year contract for the 2018-19 school year.
She was among four candidates interviewed.
Fordyce, who lives on a farm in the Powhattan area, currently serves as a librarian and Title I math teacher in the Buchanan County R-1V School District. .
She previously was a business teacher at Central High School in St. Joseph for 11 years, and a business and technology teacher for two years at Ridgeway, Missouri.
Fordyce received a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Business, Master of Science in Educational Administration and Specialist of Education in Educational Leadership, all from Northwest Missouri State University.
Fordyce has a son who currently attends school in the Hiawatha School District.
The high school principal position came open following the resignation of Andrew Gaddis at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
Alan Jeffery is serving as interim principal this school year.
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