April 23, 2001
Contributed by CEO Message
Dr. Dudley Hare, Jr. will assume the CEdO position, Dr. E. Rodney Chamberlain
will become the Maui Campus Headmaster and Dr. Stan Fortuna, Jr. has accepted
the position of the Hawai'i Campus Headmaster.
Dr. Hare is currently the executive director of the Westchester Education Coalition, a non-profit organization established by New York's Westchester County corporations, government agencies and public schools to foster partnerships for innovative educational projects. Dr. Hare has also headed a regional agency that serviced school districts in Putnam and Westchester counties in New York, and was a regional representative of the New York State commissioner of education. He has a doctorate in education administration from Columbia University.
When Dr. Fortuna joins Kamehameha, he will have left behind a 16-year period as a school superintendent in three Michigan districts, with extensive fiscal and school construction experience. He has also been an elementary principal and director of Migrant programs, and has taught at the middle and elementary school levels. He holds education and business management degrees from the University of Chicago, Western Michigan University and Aquinas College, and completed a fellowship at Harvard University. In a former life, Dr. Fortuna established his own firm to negotiate settlements for commercial and industrial firms.
Dr. Chamberlain is a career educator who spent 22 years at Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania, and most recently has been Head of School for University Lake School in Wisconsin. At Milton Hershey, a full boarding, coed K-12 school of 1,100 students, Dr. Chamberlain taught at elementary, middle and high school levels, was K-12 Curriculum Coordinator for three years, and held the post of Dean of Scholastic Affairs before he left in 1997. University Lake School is a small coed K-12 day school, noted for its innovative student and teacher laptop program and its wireless campus. Dr. Chamberlain holds a master's degree and doctorate in curriculum and supervision, with a minor in educational theory and policy from Pennsylvania State University. His undergraduate degree is from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
Full biographies and photographs of these outstanding administrators will be available soon on Kamehameha's website at www.ksbe.edu.
Our new education officers will visit all KS campuses once more before formally coming on board in July. Please join me in welcoming these gentlemen and their families to the Kamehameha Schools 'ohana. I know they are excited about joining us and look forward to learning more about our philosophies, our traditions, our challenges and our dreams.
Kamehameha Schools’ policy is to give preference to applicants of Hawaiian ancestry to the extent permitted by law.
