STAN SEILER AND PAM BARNES RESIGN AS SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

Cape Girardeau School District lost two more administrators Monday after the Board of Education accepted resignations of principals Stan Seiler and Pamela Barnes.

Their resignations are effective July 1. Both are leaving the district to accept other positions.

Seiler will be principal of West Lane Elementary School in Jackson next year. No information was available regarding Barnes' next position.

Neither Seiler nor Barnes was available for comment Tuesday.

The departures of Seiler and Barnes bring the total of administrators leaving Cape Girardeau schools after the school year to five. The district's top three administrators -- Dr. Dan Tallent, Bill Biggerstaff and David Giles -- submitted their resignations earlier in the school year.

Each was replaced by people from outside the district.

Seiler was slated to be principal of Clippard next year, but Barnes' fate with the district was uncertain. With both Washington and May Greene schools scheduled to close after the school year, only five principals would have been needed.

The two schools were originally scheduled to close after the 1997-98 school year, but construction delays pushed back the closings. In July 1997, school officials announced that May Greene principal Dr. Barbara Kohlfeld would become principal at Blanchard School when it opened.

Seiler was hired in May 1996 as principal at Charles Clippard Elementary School. He formerly had taught sixth grade at both Washington and Alma Schrader before leaving Cape Girardeau to serve one year as principal for Zalma schools.

Barnes was hired less than a year ago to work mornings as assistant principal at Alma Schrader and afternoons as a remedial math teacher at Jefferson. She was later reassigned principal of Washington school after then-principal Barbara Blanchard accepted an early retirement incentive offered by the district.

Barnes formerly taught sixth-graders at Jefferson and had three years of teaching experience at New Haven Elementary School in Columbia.