Marciante will be named superintendent of schools
John Marciante Jr. has worked in district for the past four years
BY KATHY BARATTA
Staff Writer

John Marciante Jr.

On July 1, John Marciante Jr. will become the new superintendent of schools in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District.

Marciante, 53, is presently the assistant to the superintendent for pupil personnel services. He will succeed Maureen Lally, who will retire from the district on June 30. Lally has been the district's superintendent for five years.

Marciante was chosen from a field of seven applicants who were interviewed by the Board of Education.

He has been em-ployed in the district for four years and said that he is excited about taking on the position of superintendent of schools.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Rutgers University and a doctorate in school clinical psychology from Hofstra University.

Marciante said he lived in Manalapan between the ages of 10 and 18. He graduated from the Pine Brook School, Pease Road, Manalapan, when that building was the district's junior high school. He noted that he was a member of Pine Brook's second graduating class. The school now educates children in grades four, five and six.

The Manalapan Englishtown Middle School educates the district's seventh and eighth grade pupils.

Marciante is a graduate of Marlboro High School, which Manalapan residents attended prior to the construction of Manalapan High School in the early 1970s.

Before Marlboro High School was built in the late 1960s, Manalapan students attended Freehold High School in Freehold Borough.

Marciante is the father of three children and his wife, Anna, is a teacher in another school district.

Marciante said it felt like he was coming home when he joined the Manalapan-Englishtown district four years ago as the director of pupil personnel services.

"I am very happy. Manalapan-Englishtown is a great district to be in and I look forward to finishing my career here," he said about being named superintendent.

Marciante said the details of his contract, including a salary, have not been finalized.

The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District operates six elementary schools and one middle school. An early childhood learning center is under construction at the Clark Mills School, Gordons Corner Road, Manalapan.

The district's administrative offices are in the former Main Street School, Main Street, Englishtown.