Elizabethtown School Board Will Name New Superintendent

Elizabethtown school board plans to name Amy Hodges Slamp the district’s new superintendent at its April 15 meeting, according to a news release.

Slamp, 48, has been serving as acting superintendent since the departure in November of former school chief Timothy Quinn, who left the district for personal reasons after 41/2 months on the job.

Slamp previously was assistant superintendent in Elizabethtown.

The school board is working out the details of her contract, including duration and salary.

The board decided to hire from within and did not conduct a national search for Quinn’s replacement, board president Jamie Rowley said.

“Over the past four months, we have had the opportunity to observe Amy as acting superintendent, and the feedback we have received from the community and staff as well as our own observations has been very positive,” Rowley said in the release.

Slamp came to Lancaster County in 1999 to work as assistant principal at McCaskey High School. She later was named principal but had to resign in 2003 to care for her ailing mother in Alabama.

After leaving Lancaster, she worked as a consultant for public schools in the Bronx, N.Y. She later worked for Pennsylvania Department of Education before coming to Elizabethtown in 2006.

Slamp’s career began in 1982 in Alabama, where she taught math and science.

In 1995, she was vice principal in charge of discipline at Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya. In 1996, she went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville to earn her doctorate in education. Slamp lives in Mountville with her husband, Robert, a social studies teacher at Carter and MacRae Elementary School in the Lancaster school district.

Eastern Lancaster County School District also recently appointed a new superintendent from the ranks of its administrative staff.

Elanco assistant superintendent Robert Hollister will replace Saundra Hoover, who plans to retire June 30 after three years. The Elanco school board this month awarded Hollister a five-year contract that will pay him an annual salary of $130,000.

School District of Lancaster and Manheim Township School District also are seeking new superintendents.

Originally published by Intelligencer Journal Staff.

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