Erik Coffey hired as director of North Central Career Center

Erik Coffey will be returning to South Harrison to take a position as director of the North Central Career Center.

The South Harrison Board of Education offered a contract to Coffey at Thursday night’s meeting in the high school library.

Coffey, a former teacher and football coach at South Harrison, currently is at Trenton High School where he is an assistant principal and an assistant football coach under Wes Croy.

Coffey and his wife, BG, have continued to live in Bethany and are parents of two children, Crea, a second grader, and Carci, a sixth grader at South Harrison. BG works in the TRIO program at Graceland University, where she serves as a liaison with the North Harrison, Ridgeway and South Harrison schools.

“I feel fortunate to get back in this school system,” Coffey said. He will succeed Bill Pottorff, who will be leaving NCCC to become principal at the Cainsville R-1 school.

Coffey is a graduate of Graceland where he obtained a degree in physical education and health. He later received a master’s through William Woods University.

In other business, the school board held its reorganizational meeting following the April 5 election when C.F. Rainey and Terry Daniel were re-elected to the board.

Jack McCall was elected president of the school board. Caleb Guernsey will serve as vice president, Chad Smith as secretary and Jeanna Stratton will continue as treasurer. Daniel was elected as MSBA representative and Rainey as an alternate.

The board approved the 2016-17 district goals and reviewed the A-Plus program, the special education program and migratory services, English as a second language and the homeless program.

The board awarded the floor contract for the building trades class to O’Neil’s Home Furnishings.

The board offered contracts to Christopher Schoning as a middle school social studies teacher and Katelynn Brown as elementary art teacher.

Mike Wilhelm will replace Pottorff as the head varsity girls’ basketball coach.