At its June 21 meeting, the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education unanimously approved Mr. Ron Peterson, current Assistant Principal of Voorhees High School, to be the new Principal of Voorhees effective August 1, 2011.\u00a0 Peterson succeeds David Steffan who will be retiring on August 31, 2011 after 12 years as Principal of Voorhees High School. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am very excited about my promotion to Principal of Voorhees High School.\u00a0 It is truly an honor to be selected to the position that has been held by Dave Steffan for the past 12 years.\u00a0 Thanks to his efforts, Voorhees enjoys an excellent reputation and it has been a pleasure to work with him for the past three years.\u00a0\u00a0I have a great deal of respect for the administration, staff, students and community of Voorhees and I look forward to working with them so that we may continually strive to improve an already high achieving institution,\u201d said Peterson.<\/p>\n
Peterson was chosen from approximately 40 internal and external candidates who applied for the position of Principal.\u00a0 A screening committee reduced the number of candidates to nine, who would then be interviewed by a separate committee consisting of parents, students, supervisors, a teacher and the Assistant Superintendent.\u00a0 After meeting with eight candidates (one candidate took a position elsewhere), the interview committee recommended three candidates to be interviewed by Dr. Charles Shaddow, Superintendent of Schools.\u00a0 In the end, Ron Peterson was Shaddow\u2019s choice for the position.\u00a0 The Board met with Peterson prior to voting on his appointment as Principal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter an extensive and thorough search, it became apparent that Ron was the right person for the job.\u00a0 We all look forward to working closely with Ron in his newly expanded role as the educational leader of one of the finest high schools in the state and country,\u201d said Shaddow.<\/p>\n
Prior to his three years as Assistant Principal of Voorhees, Peterson spent 13 years at South Hunterdon Regional High School where he wore many hats in the small district.\u00a0 At South Hunterdon, Peterson was Dean of Students, Supervisor of Athletics, Chairperson of the Special Education Department, and a Teacher of the Handicapped.\u00a0 He was also South Hunterdon\u2019s Affirmative Action Officer.<\/p>\n
Peterson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education\/Social Studies\/Psychology from Kutztown University in 1992 and his Master of Science in Educational Leadership from Delaware Valley College in 2004.\u00a0 He also holds a Certification as a Teacher of the Handicapped from Holy Family College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At its June 21 meeting, the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education unanimously approved Mr. Ron Peterson, current Assistant Principal of Voorhees High School, to be the new Principal of Voorhees effective August 1, 2011.\u00a0 Peterson succeeds David Steffan who will be retiring on August 31, 2011 after 12 years as Principal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 13:43:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}