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The Board of Directors

What Does the Board Do?
Raleigh Charter High School, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run by a Board of Directors made up of business professionals, experienced educators, and college professors.
Who Are They?
Dr. Susan Arrendell has been involved at RCHS since 1999 and is a past member of the PASTA Board. Her sons graduated from RCHS in 2003 and 2007.
Susan holds a Ph.D. from NC State University in plant breeding.
Dana Barrow, vice-chair of the Board, has been at RCHS since 2005. She served as a PASTA VP of Fundraising from 2006 - 2008. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Wake Forest University. Her daughter is a graduate of the RCHS class of 2009.
Debra Tabb DeCamillis is a qualitative market research consultant based in Raleigh. She is a Past President of PASTA and the mother of two RCHS graduates. She earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Thomas E. Humble is Principal of Raleigh Charter High School. Tom has been a junior-high teacher in Durham County and a high-school English teacher in Wake County. He has a B.A. in History from UNC-Charlotte, a Master of Arts in Teaching in English Education from Duke, a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill, and both Principal's and Superintendent's licenses from North Carolina State University. Tom has taught in the Duke TIP Summer Residential Program and has been an AP English Language consultant with Duke TIP and the College Board.
Vidya Iyer is a Specialty Banker at Wachovia. She has a B.S. in Business Management from North Carolina State University. Her daughter is a member of the RCHS class of 2009.
Mike Jordan, Board Chair, is an award-winning, retired Wake County Schools principal, having been principal of Lead Mine Elementary, Daniels Middle School, and East Wake High School. He was the founding principal of The Magellan Charter School, and he has been the director of Sterling Montessori Charter School. He has a BA in English from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MA in Education from East Carolina University.
Mary Krawiec teaches Spanish at Raleigh Charter High School.
Scott Saylor is President of the North Carolina Railroad Company, which owns the primary freight and passenger railroad line through North Carolina. Scott is also an attorney, and holds a B. S. in Business Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill and a J. D. from North Carolina Central University. Scott and his wife Fran are the parents of two sons, one a graduate of the RCHS class of 2009, and one a current student at RCHS.
Danny Zweigart is a Computer LAN Administrator. In his previous lives, Danny has been a youth director for the YMCA of Raleigh as well as a high school Physics Teacher for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Danny and his wife Sandra have two children, one a graduate of the RCHS class of 2009 and one at Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary.