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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. Mary K. Brown holds an M.A. Honours degree from St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland. She is an editor, helping academics and professionals — especially those whose first language is not English — improve journal and article submissions, reports, proposals, and similar documents. Mary K. served as editor of the RCHS Phoenix News from 2005-07. She is married and has three children, a son at NCSU, a daughter in the RCHS class of 2007 and now at UNC Asheville, and a son in the class of 2011.
Dr. Patsy Collins is
a school psychologist and clinical professor at North Carolina State
University (NCSU), with a Ph.D. in School Psychology from NCSU, and directs
a clinic for children with learning differences.
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.
Eric
Grunden teaches
Chemistry at Raleigh Charter High School.
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.
Mike Jordan 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. He is currently co-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.
Hilarie
Nickerson, Board Chair, holds the position of program coordinator with the UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative, which offers professional development initiatives that emphasize appropriate and effective uses of technology to enhance instruction. Hilarie has a BS in Engineering Sciences from Yale University, a MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a MID in Industrial Design from North Carolina State University. Her daughter is a member of the RCHS class of 2008.
Kathy Schultz, current president of PASTA, has been at RCHS since 2000. She has had one daughter and two sons graduate in the classes of 2002, 2004, 2006 and presently has a son in the class of 2010.
Martha
Tempest is the publisher of Kidsville News! of the Triangle, a local monthly kids' newspaper with a literacy mission. Martha has a BA in Classics from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She has been a La Leche League Leader for 26 years, and is currently Area Coordinator of Leaders for North Carolina. Martha is a parent of four, among them a 2003 RCHS graduate and a current student.
Sam Whitt is the Executive Director of Cherokee Gives Back and the father of two students at Raleigh Charter High School.
Danny
Zweigart, past president of the Parent, Administrator, Student, Teacher, Association (PASTA), 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 at RCHS (class of 2009) and one at Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary. |
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