HARTLEYâThe Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District will welcome two new principals on July 1.
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn instructional coach Ashley Benz was selected to be the next elementary principal while special education facilitator Corey Ramsey of the Davenport School District was tapped to be the middle school principal.
Superintendent Patrick Carlin said the district board of education received 25-30 applicants for each position. The board approved the hires during a meeting Monday, April 5.
âWe had a very quality pool, and it was really great to see these guys rise to the top,â Carlin said.
Ashley Benz
Ashley Benz was born and raised in Hartley, graduated from Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School in 2004 and soon will become the districtâs next elementary principal.
REGIONALâChuck Comstock of Sanborn took a step back in time to help Cedar Falls author James Kenyon write about the former Sanborn High School.
Comstock, who is 75, was one of a group of 14 Sanborn High School graduates and local historians whose memories of growing up and going to school in Sanborn are recorded in Kenyonâs latest book âEchoes in the Hallways: History and Recollections of 102 Closed Iowa High Schools.â
The book, published Jan. 29 by Meadowlark Books of Emporia, KS, is a collection of stories from former students of closed Iowa high schools from all 99 counties.
Comstock, who graduated in 1963 from Sanborn High School, and the others were interviewed by Kenyon in April 2019 when they swapped stories of favorite teachers, school dances and other traditions that ended with Sanborn High School consolidated with Hartley-Melvin School District in 1991.