Dr. Marlin B. Creasy to retire in June 2008, ending 40-year career in public education

MUNCIE, IN - Dr. Marlin B. Creasy will end a 40-year career in public education and retire as the superintendent of Muncie Community Schools at the end of the 2007-2008 school year. The MCS Board of School Trustees approved the retirement decision after Dr. Creasy read an emotional letter written to board members starting by thanking them for giving him the rewarding opportunity to serve as the superintendent of Muncie Community Schools.

All five board members later made comments that alluded to Dr. Creasy’s unrivaled commitment to quality education for the students of Muncie Community Schools. President Julius Anderson, after allowing board members to speak, said, “We wish you the best and your shoes will be darn hard to fill.”   

Board Member Jennifer Abrell said Dr. Creasy has served Muncie Community Schools “with distinction” and is a “tireless champion of our schools and community with two overall endearing qualities – the positive attitude he brings to every situation and his commitment to education, to issues on student achievement, to current legislative issues at the state level, and to the Indiana Department of Education. No one has been more committed to our school corporation than Dr. Creasy.”  

Marilyn Carey and Mike Gorin thanked Dr. Creasy for his determined commitment to attend the many school activities on all nights of the week  - to dress in the appropriate school colors – and to being known personally to MCS students as he is warmly greeted by students as he enters any of the district’s schools. 

Dr. Creasy began his position as superintendent for Muncie Community Schools in 1997, and his retirement will be effective June 27, 2008.  

“Muncie is an excellent place,” Dr. Creasy said about the school corporation and the city that will continue to be his home. “I am not leaving Muncie.”  

“Having almost daily interaction with students would be the most enjoyable part of my position as well as maintaining relationships with teachers and administrators,” Dr. Creasy shared following announcing his plan to retire at an informal meeting with administrators earlier today. He told fellow administrators that he did not want them to learn of his decision to retire by reading it in the local media and therefore opted to hold a volunteer meeting to announce the recommendation he would make later that night at the Board Meeting.  

Dr. Creasy shared that forty years this spring he was an elementary teacher intern in Gary Community Schools. “Forty years is a long time to work for the public, and there’s always a good time to leave. I am happy.”  

Having served most of his career in education in the northern part of the state, Dr. Creasy has been employed at six Indiana school corporations. After serving first in the Gary Community Schools, Dr. Creasy taught one year in East Chicago Public Schools, and taught and served as Administrative Assistant to the Principal in Portage (Township) Schools. He served as an elementary principal, a middle school principal, a high school principal, chief of labor negotiations, and as superintendent in a 15-year period at Carroll School Corporation before being named superintendent of Delaware Community Schools in 1989 and Muncie Community Schools in July of 1997.  

The board also approved the interim administrative assignments of three persons for the remainder of the 2007-2008 school year. Bill Jones was appointed interim principal of Central High School effective January 24, 2008. Jackie Samuels, Program Supervisor of the Youth Opportunity Center, was named interim assistant principal of Central High School, and Youth Opportunity Teacher Anna Epperly was named interim Program Supervisor of the YOC. Those two assignments will be effective January 14, 2008. 

In reassigning the administrative responsibilities of recently retired Director of Instruction, Curriculum and Assessment/secondary Judy Valos, Dr. Creasy reported that shared areas of duties will be overseen by Dr. Brad Oliver, Ermalene Faulkner, and Warner VanFleet for the remainder of the 2007-2008 school year.  

The Board of School Trustees approved the teaching appointments of Sheila Johnson, Health/Dental II; Melody Stader, Social Studies, Southside High School and Amber Warner, Science, Central High School.  

The teacher resignations of Cynthia Boes, Special Education, Northside Middle School, (January 7, 2008), Rebecca Clock, Social Studies, Central High School, (December 21, 2007), Bryan Murray, Social Studies, Central High School, (January 6, 2008) and Annette Baumer, Project Lead the Way, were accepted.    

The teacher coach appointment of Phil Seale as Central High School boys’ track coach was approved.

Source: Muncie Community Schools

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