Haverford Township Assistant Superintendent Plans To Retire

Nancy Donahue, Haverford Township School District’s assistant superintendent of human resources and elementary education, plans to retire this spring, after more than 30 years with the district, Superintendent William Keilbaugh announced at a school board meeting on Thursday night.

Keilbaugh made the announcement before the Haverford Township Board of School Directors unanimously accepted Donahue’s retirement, which will be effective April 24, 2012, at which time she will have worked for the district for 30.7 years.

Donahue, as well as school board members Maxine Murdoch and James Goldschmidt, were absent from the meeting.

A graduate of Haverford High School, Donahue was an elementary school principal and director of personnel for the Haverford Township School District before she became the assistant superintendent of human resources and elementary education, Keilbaugh said.

“She’s not here this evening, I think, in part, because of this,” Keilbaugh said of Donahue’s plans to retire.

School Board President Denis Gray said he thought, “Nancy is the alumni that has rose highest in our school district.”

“I thank Nancy for all that she’s done,” Gray said.

The Haverford-Havertown Patch asked Keilbaugh after the meeting if the school district will conduct a search for a new assistant superintendent in light of Donahue’s plan to retire.

“We’re working on that,” Keilbaugh said. “We’re thinking about it.”

Donahue’s early notice about her retirement plans gives the district time for consideration in terms what would be best organizationally (in terms of the role of the assistant superintendent of human resources and elementary education and whether there should be a role change) and what would be best economically, Keilbaugh said.