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Thursday August 30, 2018 Volume 12, No. 35 Published by Times-Sentinel Newspapers LLC PAGE 1
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Campus High starts year with new principal By Sam Jack
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Campus High School starts its 2018-2019 school year with a new principal, David Morford. Before coming to Campus, Morford served as principal at Ottawa High School, Olathe North High School, De Soto
High School and Winfield High School. Olathe North had a student population of about 2,300, so Morford is familiar with the dynamics in large high schools like Campus. “Any school, but it’s certainly multiplied with a large school, there’s lots of moving parts and lots of things that go on daily,” he said. “You have to
have great people around you, which we do here.” Morford’s contract started at the end of July, but he spent time earlier in the summer getting to know teachers and staff. “Mr. (Myron) Regier, the former principal, and I actually went to college together and have been good friends for over 40 years, so I am well
aware of what he’s done here at Campus, the leadership style, and the good things that were already in place,” he said. “When I was at Winfield, I even coached against Campus in the gymnasium and on the field here.” Morford was born in Newton, where his father was sher-
David Morford is the new principal at Campus High School.
See MORFORD, Page 6
‘Choose Happy’ | Remembering Kim Hall
City council considers exit interview policy By Nancy D. Borst
Haysville Sun-Times
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Members of the public are invited to a work day at the Owl’s Nest outdoor classroom and nature center at Nelson Elementary School. It was started by the late Kim Hall, a longtime teacher at Nelson.
Public invited to help with project Staff report
Haysville Sun-Times
The public is invited to participate in a community work day at Nelson Elementary on Labor Day.
The Campus High School Student Council is coordinating a day of work on the Owl’s Nest outdoor classroom and nature area at Nelson Elementary School. Nelson first-grade teacher Kim
Hall started work on the Owl’s Nest before she fell ill with cancer. In the weeks before her death in May, friends and former students donated
The Haysville City Council got its first look at a possible city employee exit interview process at its Aug. 27 meeting. Council members had requested discussion of such a policy at their last meeting after a citizen raised concerns about turnover among police officers and the lack of exit interviews in that department. Background information indicated the council had approved a motion in January 2005 to eliminate exit interviews from the personnel manual. The proposed procedure would call for the assistant city clerk to conduct all exit interviews by reading a set of questions to the employee and writing down the employee’s answers. The employee would review the answers, then sign and date the form. The interview form would be emailed to the employee’s department head and the chief administrative officer after the employee had terminated employment. Reaction to the proposal was mixed. Council member Bob Rardin said he did not see any benefit to an exit interview. He said 90 percent of employees won’t give the real reason they are leaving. He called such a process a “waste of resources.” Council member Steve Crum said such interviews would help the city stay on top of salary trends. “I want us to make sure we keep
See NEST, Page 6A
See CITY, Page 6A
Ready to play Members of the Campus Colts volleyball team show their excitement at last week’s sports preview. See additional photos on Page 1B, and read the Haysville SunTimes’ Fall Sports Guide, starting on Page 2B. Laura Nicholas/Haysville Sun-Times
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