Deputy Superintendent Announces Retirement Plans
Acting Deputy Superintendent and long-time Prince William County Schools administrator, Wayne Mallard, will retire this coming April. Mallard’s departure plans were announced at the School Board meeting Wednesday night.
“I have reached this decision with mixed emotions,” Mallard says. “I have many things in front of me that I am anxious to start. On the other hand, every educator’s dream is to be a part of the kind of excitement and hope that Dr. Walt’s vision is bringing to Prince William County Schools.”
Mallard joined the School Division in 1969, starting as a teacher at Gar-Field High School. He later served as a Guidance Counselor and Assistant Principal at Woodbridge and Potomac High Schools before taking a hiatus from education in 1981. Mallard returned to Prince William County Schools in 1987, was named Principal of C.D. Hylton Senior High in 1990, and joined the Superintendent’s staff as Area II Associate in 1999. He assumed the role of Associate Superintendent for Management in 2004, taking on additional duties as Acting Deputy Superintendent a year later.
“ Wayne has made tremendous contributions to Prince William County Schools, and he’s continuing to help us chart the course for the future,” says Superintendent Steven L. Walts. “His retirement will be as much of a loss to the schools as it is a gain for his family. You can’t just replace a Wayne Mallard,” adds Walts. “We’ll have to think very carefully about the long term, while we get the most from Wayne until he retires.”
1/19/06
