THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY
ABOVE: Georgetown-Ridge Farm principal Kevin Thomas
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Four area administrators — three from Vermilion County, one from Douglas — were honored as the cream of the Illini Region crop by the Illinois Principals Association. Our Jennifer Bailey caught up with each of them.
High School Principal of the Year: KEVIN THOMAS, Georgetown-Ridge Farm
A Vermilion County native and proud alum of the former Rossville-Alvin High School — “once a Bobcat, always a Bobcat,” he says — Thomas is in his 13th year as a Georgetown-Ridge Farm administrator and 33rd in education.
The first dozen were spent at his alma mater, where he served as a science teacher, dean of students, athletic director, boys’ basketball coach and Rossville-Alvin High’s last principal, in 2004-05. He spent eight years working in Catlin schools before moving to Georgetown.
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