UNION CITY, Ohio — The Mississinawa Valley Schools will have the following bus stops for the coming year.
Town students will be assigned a pick-up point at one of the following locations:
1) Southwest corner of Cherry and Division streets – Knollwood Apartments
2) Current East Side Playground on Sycamore Street
3) Northwest corner of Maple and Elm streets – empty lot by Marsh
4) Southeast corner of Elm and Walnut streets
5) Baptist Church – First Street
7) Northwest corner of Wall and Division streets
8) Southwest corner of Division and Elm streets
9) Southeast corner of Division and Main streets
Students will be picked up between 7:30 and 7:50 a.m. Students who load at stops #1, #3 and #8 will not arrive at school in time to receive breakfast. K-6 students will be dropped off at the same location to which they were picked up at 2:45 with the exception of bus stops #7 and #9. Those students will be dropped off at 3:05. 7-12 students will be dropped off at bus stops #2, #5, #8, #9 at 3:05.
Bus routes and pick up times can be viewed on the doors at the main entrance to the building. If there are any questions regarding the routes or pick-up times, call the school at 968-4464, ext. 2451 and ask for Doug Dunham, superintendent.
School personnel for the 2016-17 school year are:
School board: Lori Cox, president; Dale Breymier, vice president; and Amy Hanes, Matt Hiestand and Sandy Skidmore.
Central office: Doug Dunham, superintendent; Nicholas Hamilton, treasurer/chief financial officer; Shawn Peters, technology coordinator; and Sherry Dirksen, assistant treasurer/secretary to the superintendent.
Mississinawa Valley Elementary School (Grades K-6):
Principal – Stephanie Klingshirn
Secretary – Sandy Denniston
Kindergarten – Megan Coatney, Sarah Ranly and Emily Taylor
First grade – Nichole Anguiano, Mike Kukasky and Kim Minnich
Second grade – Christi Hummel, Sheila Scholl and Janel Thobe
Third grade – Denise Mayo and Amy Roessner
Fourth grade – Teresa Birt, Amber Schellhase and Pam Stump
Fifth grade – Brenda Nagel and Jessica Schlater
Sixth grade – Shauna Hopkins, Billie Hunt and Melanie Neargarder
Intervention specialist – Maria Kinninger, Jan Smith and Sara Smith
M.H. – Jennifer Lause
Phys education/health – Emily Clark
Music – Audrey Hathaway
Reading Recovery – Susan Clack and Max Kindell
Band – Sara Lewis
E.D. – Sonya Spitler
Pre-school – Crystal Schneider, Laura DeMange and Elaine Bailey
Para professionals –Kathy Armstrong, Paula Foreman, Kim Hummel, Cindy Linder, Annette Livingston, Connie McEldowney, Charlene Philiposian and Doris Schweppe
Mississinawa Valley Junior High/Senior High School – Grades (7-12):
Principal – Jeffrey Winchester
Secretary – Betty Teegarden
Guidance – Andrea Howard
Special education – Jodi Humphries, Chene’ Bridges and Kim Knox
Seventh and eighth grade – Zack Evers-math and Brittany Force-science/intervention, Kaitlin Quellhorst – math, Amanda Masters – language arts, and Tricia Seubert-LA/psych/sociology
Social studies – Lea Ann Livingston and Ryan McGlothlin
Mathematics – Greg Beherns, Gwen Bergman and Keith Rhoades
Science – Dawn Collins and Kim McEldowney
IBE-accounting/business foundations – Tammy Drew
Language arts – Renee Bergman
English publications – Amy Bruns
Foreign language – Justin Herth
Vocational Agriculture – Carmen Hartzell
Instrumental music – Sara Lewis
Art – Ashley Austerman
Health and physical education – Terry Niekamp
School nurse – Jamie Wisner
EMIS coordinator/guidance secretary – Roxanne Stocksdale
Aide – Debbie Gower
Cooks – Katie Walters-cafeteria Manager, Kim Beanblossom, Brenda Brinley, Pam Hampshire, Kathy Leeper, Karen Livingston, Pat Martin, Tiffany Pollic, Roberta Wenger and Deanna Westfall
Custodians – Tony Neargarder, Gary Francis, Shirley Thomason, Linda Yount and Richard Yount
Bus drivers: Janis Eby, Pam Hampshire, Sarah Hiestand, Todd Murphy, Nick Philiposian, Jeff Slyder and Vickie Turner