Ashley
Bateman
Executive Assistant & Administrative
Liaison
(225) 751-0808
batemana@ehsbr.org |
The Board of Trustees of Episcopal High School of Baton
Rouge has hired Deborah Kay Betts as the college preparatory
school’s head of school. Betts, who will assume her
new duties on July 1, 2005, becomes only the third permanent
head in the school’s history.
“We are confident that Kay will provide the leadership
necessary to emphasize the school’s Episcopal identity,” said
Richard Chauvin, chairman of the board of trustees. “She
also embraces Episcopal’s deeply held ideas to ministering
to the “whole person” and offering a premier
educational experience for our talented and diverse community
of learners.”
“I found in the community at Episcopal a deep respect
for the integrity of young people and a deep commitment
to developing those young people into responsive and responsible
adults. I look forward – with excitement – to
helping an excellent school become even more engaged with
its identity, an identity rooted in the principles of Episcopal
schools nationwide.”
Kay comes to Episcopal by way of Marist School in Atlanta,
where she has served as academic dean, teacher and coach
since 1998. She is a graduate of Centre College of Kentucky
and Bank Street College in New York, where she received
her Master’s of Science in Educational Leadership.
Her twenty-eight years in independent schools include nine
years at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis,
Tennessee. She is an active communicant in the Episcopal
Church.
“We were pleased at the number of incredibly qualified
candidates who wanted to become a part of our Episcopal
community,” said Lolly Martin, head of the search
committee. “Kay simply stood out as the person who
best matched our criteria for leadership, personality and
faith. We can’t wait to get her on campus.”
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