» School board appoints new member

Scott K. Hall is the newest member of the board of directors for Reedsport School District 105. The board voted last Wednesday to appoint Hall to replace Carey Jones, who resigned last month.

Hall said he was glad to get the news.

“I wanted to be on the board because I figured I could be of some positive help — to do something positive for our community,” Hall said. He added that working with the changeover to a charter school concept for grades 7-12 is going to be an interesting one.

Serving on a school board is not exactly a new adventure for Hall. He spent two and a half years as a member of the board of directors of the K-12 Sacred Heart School in Klamath Falls.

What he finds most interesting about being able to work with the school board is, “the new horizons ... that both the students and the board get to create and then head toward. I’m interested in helping keep things on course.”

Hall said he has been going to Reedsport’s school board meetings “off and on” for a while now, watching and listening to see how things are done by the board’s current members. He’s also been thinking about how some things could be done better, or some discussions expanded to include possibilities that haven’t been considered yet.

The director’s term he was appointed to complete ends in June 2011. While he said he can’t say for absolute certain that he’ll become a candidate for another term, hall did say that, since he has always been interested in the educational process and involved as an educator himself, he’s pretty sure he’ll want to stick around.

“I definitely want to be involved in the hiring of the next elementary principal and in shaping the search for the next district superintendent,” he said. “After that, we’ll see how things go.”

Hall has been a resident of Reedsport since June 2006, when he moved here from Klamath Falls to become manager of the department of nuclear medicine at Lower Umpqua Hospital.

He spent 17 years at Oregon Institute of Technology where he worked his way up to the position of associate professor and director of the school’s Nuclear Medicine Technology program.

Hall and his wife, Peggy, have one child in first grade at Highland Elementary, and two other children who have already graduated from college. The Halls also have two grandchildren attending Highland.

In addition to his studies in radiology and nuclear imaging technology, Hall earned a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary’s College of California, and a Master of Liberal Studies degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Hall’s was the only application received by the school district for this latest vacancy on the school board.