DEXTER MAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF BOOTHEEL EDUCATION CENTER

MALDEN, Mo. -- Lewis "Rick" Hux of Dexter, Mo., has been named director of the Harry L. Crisp Bootheel Education Center in Malden, Mo.

Hux has 31 years of public school service and will retire from his superintendency at Van Buren School District June 30. He will begin his new duties in Malden on July 1.

"Dr. Hux comes to this position with a rich background in education," said Dr. Pat Lipetzky, dean of the School of Extended Learning at Southeast Missouri State University. "His years of experience as a superintendent in Southeast Missouri and as an adjunct faculty member provide great depth and breadth of experience that will be of benefit to the Crisp Bootheel Education Center."

Hux replaces Dr. Robert Ritschel, who resigned as director of the Crisp BEC to accept a position as dean of the campus at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

"I am looking forward to the new position with a lot of anticipation," Hux said. "It will be a new challenge for me. I'm looking forward to working with the people at Three Rivers, Malden and Southeast."

Prior to his Van Buren superintendency, Hux was principal of Van Buren Junior and Senior High School. He served as principal of Dexter High School from 1979 to 1990, principal of T.S. Hill Middle School from 1978 to 1979, and assistant principal at Dexter High School from 1976 to 1978.

Hux served as the off-campus site administrator for Sterling (Kansas) College from 1990 to 1992, and he has experience teaching at both the secondary and post-secondary levels . He taught several physics courses at then-Southeast Missouri State College from 1969 to 1972. He taught numerous business and math courses from 1986 to 1992 at Sterling College.