Familiar faces leave district
BY KATHY BARATTA
Staff Writer

As the 2006-07 school year concludes, a number of veteran employees are retiring from the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District.

John Dawes, who has served as the Board of Education's attorney for four decades, is retiring from that position. The board recently announced that a new school for kindergartners that is being built on Gordons Corner Road will be named the John I. Dawes Early Learning Center.

Attorney Sanford Brown of Freehold will succeed Dawes as the school board's attorney.

Superintendent of Schools Maureen Lally, who served in the district for six years, will also be retiring.

Other retirees include Randy Corder, who taught music for 39 years at Clark Mills School.

Retiring staff members at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School are Marlene Franklin, who worked as a librarian with the district for 39 years, Barbara Kwaak, a remedial reading teacher with the district for 31 years, and Leta Pius, who worked as a librarian for 26 years.

Milford Brook School is seeing the retirement this year of second grade teacher Suzanne Paris, who taught in the school system for 20 years.

Patricia D'Accurso, the wife of retired Clark Mills School Principal Carmen D'Accurso, is retiring from the Wemrock Brook School after serving 30 years with the district as a school counselor.

At the Pine Brook School, Phyllis Ostrega is retiring from teaching sixth grade after being with the district for 27 years, fourth grade teacher Regina Resnick is retiring after 20 years with the school district, and Roxanne Rothbaum, a fifth grade teacher who has been with the district for 23 years is also retiring.

Susan Davis, who worked as a librarian, first at Pine Brook and then at Lafayette Mills School, is retiring after serving 39 years in the school district.