CAPE SCHOOL BOARD HIRES ADMINISTRATORS

Two administrators and other personnel were hired Monday during a special meeting of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education.

Julie Davenport and Pamela Barnes were hired to fill two of three administrative positions vacated because of resignations or retirements. Board members have yet to hire a replacement for Barbara Blanchard, principal of Washington Elementary School, who accepted an early retirement incentive offered to certified staff by the district last month.

Davenport was hired as principal of Franklin Elementary School. She has nine years of administrative experience in Little Rock, Ark., as well as a year as a teacher supervisor at Southeast Missouri State University. She replaces Jim Watkins, who had worked as a principal in the school district for the past 10 years.

Barnes will work mornings as assistant principal at Alma Schrader Elementary School and afternoons as a remedial math teacher at Jefferson Elementary School. She currently teaches sixth-graders at Jefferson and has three years of teaching experience at New Haven Elementary School in Columbia. She replaces Mark Cook, who last month was named principal of Jefferson Elementary School beginning the 1998-99 school year. Cook was promoted to fill a position left vacant by Gerald Landewee, who resigned last month to accept a principalship at Oak Ridge Elementary School.