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Article: Schools Chief In Calvert To Retire; Deputy Superintendent Set to Replace Hook
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- The Washington Post
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- January 12, 2003
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In an announcement that surprised many in Calvert County, public
schools Superintendent James R. Hook said last week he will retire in
June.
His voice trembling with emotion, Hook told the Board of Education
at its meeting Thursday, "Sooner or later you have to make that
decision and it just feels like the right time."
Board President Robert L. Gray immediately announced that the
school board would offer the top position to deputy superintendent J.
Kenneth Horsmon. Horsmon said he would accept.
Hook, 59, had signed a second four-year contract last February.
Before being appointed to the post in 1998, he had served as interim
superintendent in 1993 and 1997.
While he had talked of retiring in ...