Eight high school administrators were elected to the IHSAA Board of Directors during the annual elections conducted by mail vote within the member schools in each of the five IHSAA districts Dec. 1-10. Each member school principal had the opportunity to vote for the candidates running for seats in the respective district. The open seats are apportioned geographically and by school size.

Two educators were re-elected to serve in open seats, three others were elected for the first time to fill open seats, and three more were elected to serve in urban school seats.

For the first time, voting was conducted to fill the new urban school seats created by the IHSAA Board of Directors at its annual meeting on May 1, 2000. Three seats were created, with the members to be elected from schools serving an urban population. The districts were drawn to run horizontally and divide the state in thirds. The addition of the urban seats brings the number of education professionals who served on the IHSAA Board of Directors to 21 beginning July 1, 2001.

As with other IHSAA board seats, the urban school members will serve staggered terms. For the first cycle, the North District seat is a three-year term, the Central District seat is a two-year term and the South District seat is for a one-year term. In December 2001, the South District seat will be contested for a three-year term. In December 2002, the Central District seat will be contested for a three-year term. In December 2003, the North District seat will be open again and for a three-year term.

Re-elected to serve a new three-year term were:

• Janis Qualizza, athletic director of Merrillville High School, in District I.
• Dan Cunningham, principal of Owen Valley High School, in District III.

Elected to serve three-year terms for the first time were:

• Phil Hoskins, principal of Fairfield High School, in District II.
• Patrick Mapes, principal of Delta High School, in District IV.
• Roger Weaver, principal of White River Valley High School, in District V.

Cunningham, Hoskins, Qualizza and Weaver will begin their service on the Board of Directors July 1, 2001 and serve through June 30, 2004. They also will serve on the IHSAA Executive Committee in the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 school years.

Mapes immediately fills a seat vacated last summer by Steve Riordan, former principal of Jennings County. Riordan is now principal at Mount Vernon High School, which is in District V. Mapes will serve the final seven months of Riordan’s term and begin a new three-year term on July 1, 2001. In addition to his Board of Director duties, Mapes will serve on the IHSAA Executive Committee from now until June 30, 2001 and again during the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 school years.

Elected to serve in an urban school seat were:

• Cassel White, principal of Hammond High School, in the North District to a three-year term.
• Roy E. Simpson, principal of Indianapolis Northwest High School, in the Central District to a two-year term.
• John J. Williams, principal of Evansville Harrison High School, in the South District to a one-year term.

The IHSAA Executive Committee, which conducted its monthly meeting for December on Monday, also appointed Jean Shonkwiler, principal at Oak Hill High School, to fill the remaining seven months of a three-year minority seat in District II. The seat was vacated in September by the resignation of Sue Keenan of Lakeland High School. Shonkwiler will serve through June 30, 2001 on the IHSAA Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

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