Bio: Mohr, Allen
Contact: Stan
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Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Mohr is new NHS principal
Clark County
Press (Neillsville, WI) August 13, 1997
It’s official,
Allen Mohr is the new principal at Neillsville High School. The Neillsville
School Board on Monday approved the contract of the former math teacher at
Neillsville High School. That was the last
step in the process that began in April to find a new principal to replace John
Gaier, now the school district’s superintendent. Gaier replaced Richard Quast,
who retired this year. During the summer
months, a selection committee of school and community members conducted an
initial screening of 20 candidates for the principal’s position. Two of the 20
were teachers from within the Neillsville School District. Following review of
applications, the committee recommended Mohr and two other candidates for
interviews. The school board,
in a special closed meeting on July 28, interviewed the three candidates, and
offered Mohr the position the next day. Mohr accepted on July 30. The job of
high school principal was Mohr’s, pending final approval of his employment
contract. As expected, the school board did just that in Monday’s meeting. Mohr’s we years as
a teacher at Neillsville will serve him well as the new principal, Gaier said.
"His biggest advantage is knowledge of school policy and past practice," he
said. "He’s going to
have growing pains, but the (school) board obviously had faith that he could do
the job," said Gaier. Neillsville is
hometown to Mohr, 47, who graduated from the high school in 1968. He went on to
UW-Eau Claire, graduating from there in 1972 with a teaching degree in math and
physics. Mohr went on to attain a Masters in Teaching degree from UW-Eau Claire
in 1991, and his degree in school administration from Winona State University,
in Minnesota, in 1993. Mohr lives in
rural Neillsville with his wife, Debra, and their seven children. He is looking
forward to the challenge of fulfilling the responsibilities of high school
principal, Mohr said. But he is also looking for input and help from teachers
and staff that have been in place for a number of years. The high school
secretaries, Delilah Seelow and Linda Osegard, have been there since before he
started teaching at Neillsville, Mohr pointed out. Their knowledge of
established office procedure will be a benefit for him. Discipline will
also continue to be important in the halls and classrooms of the high school.
"Dean Zaleski will be a big help," Mohr said of the high school’s dean of
students and truant officer. "John Gaier will
be a big help, too," said Mohr, adding that is predecessor had set the right
tone and direction during his four years tenure as principal. "I’m comfortable
with the system. I don’t see the need for any major changes," the new principal
said. "I feel that Neillsville has the best school system around. I don’t want
that to change."
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