Dorchester Times: Pieper Selected as Interim Superintendent

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Pieper Selected as Interim Superintendent

The Times has learned that the Dorchester School Board has hired Don Pieper as superintendent for the 2007-08 school year. The move is seen as short-term. Sources tell us that the search for a permanent superintendent will continue. Brian Redinger will serve as K-12 principal for the upcoming school year.

Pieper served as superintendent of Dorchester Public Schools from 1995 until 2005.

Also decided by the Dorchester School Board at last night's meeting was the selection of Doris Broz as the new director of the Dorchester Community Preschool. Broz must yet be certified by Nebraska Health and Human Services and the preschool must be inspected by the State Fire Marshall prior to the start of sessions. Questions concerning the preschool should be directed to Broz at (402) 821-2547.

16 comments:

AnonymousJune 12, 2007 at 1:34 PM
This makes sense to me. I'm surprised that Mr. Pieper came out of retirement, but this takes a lot of pressure off of the board as they try to pick a superintendent who will be around for years to come. Thank you, Mr. Pieper.
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Interested BystanderJune 12, 2007 at 4:31 PM
Is there a law that says a school MUST have a Superintendent? What salary is Pieper going to be paid? Couldn't we have just waited until the Principal is ready to step up and take the reins? I understand he is just a few credit hours away from being certified. Waiting for him would have been my choice.
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AnonymousJune 12, 2007 at 11:21 PM
8o grand

who wouldnt come out of retirement for that kind of money?
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AnonymousJune 13, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Dorchester is lucky to have Don Pieper to fill in as an Interim Supt. I hope that his expertise is recognized and appreciated by community but particularly by the School Board.
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Village DwellerJune 13, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Anonymous: You know we are not going to publish such remarks. Feel free to resubmit them, minus the personal attacks. Or, if you feel so strongly, submit a signed letter-to-the-editor.
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AnonymousJune 14, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Tell me this isn't just tredding water. I thought we were trying to move forward and look to the future. Mr. Pieper is a fine fellow but hiring someone from the past for one year is not looking to the future.
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AnonymousJune 14, 2007 at 10:51 PM
perfect comment west side

i agree 100 per cent
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AnonymousJune 15, 2007 at 7:59 AM
I agree with west side alum. I think we need to move forward and not back.
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AnonymousJune 15, 2007 at 3:14 PM
What don't you understand about the term "interim"? Let me break it down for you ...... it means for the meantime, until someone permanent is hired. Quit trying to spark controversy. That's my job!
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AnonymousJune 16, 2007 at 5:50 AM
thats what i like about you cynical richard,

a human dictionary too

get a life
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AnonymousJune 16, 2007 at 8:46 PM
maybe mr pieper will put the school bond issue on hold, there was never anything wrong with our school when he was here.
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AnonymousJune 17, 2007 at 6:48 PM
Hey Bobs Buddy......Get a Life??? Is that all you can come up with. You're so quick I almost feel sorry for you. Look at the bright side.......you don't have any student loans on that 8th grade education.
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AnonymousJune 18, 2007 at 10:17 PM
you know cynical richard,

you are the coolest

I hope when i get old like you i can own a trailer just like yours.

you are so good at all of this stuff, is it all your ideas or does your wife help you??

i might have an eighth grade education, but at least it didnt take me 4 years to get through the 8th grade.

i did hear you were poplular back then, the only 4th grade kid who was old enough to drive to school

have a good day and dont fall off your bar stool
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AnonymousJune 19, 2007 at 8:04 PM
A smart move by the school board to bring Mr. Peiper on board for the school year. The school needs Mr. Pieper leadership and wisdom with budget and school. This way the school board will have time to find a supt. that can lead them into the future. Thank you school board for using your head on this matter. Thank you Mr. Pieper for coming out of retirement.
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AnonymousJune 22, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Nice to know the school district will be in goods hands starting July 1.
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AnonymousJune 24, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Hey, bob's buddy.......congratulations. You finally figured out how to turn on the power to your computer. If you need a job let me know.......I need a hired hand whos quick like you.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."