GRANT COUNTY – Schools in Grant County are welcoming three new superintendents: Lloyd Hartley at Long Creek, Scott Langkamp at Monument and Kerma Berry at Dayville.

Hartley joins the Long Creek School District as a first-year administrator. He attended the University of Oregon and graduated from Southern Oregon University with a bachelor’s degree in business and economics and later earned his master’s degree in teaching.

Hartley taught computer and Spanish at Elkton. In June 2002, he received his administrator’s license through the University of Oregon.

Hartley is encouraged that the Long Creek School is adding more electives to the curriculum, such as home economics, debate and drama, drivers education, landscaping and weight lifting. In addition, this is the first year for the dormitory which houses eight foreign exchange students and another four foreign students living with families in the community.

Langkamp, at the Monument School District, received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Western Oregon College in Monmouth. He taught second grade in Corvallis for seven years then taught seventh-grade math and science at Elkton. For the past two years, he served as principal of Elkton Grade School. He received his administrator’s license from the University of Oregon and has been accepted for the doctoral program, which he is considering.

Berry returns to her old stomping grounds as Dayville School superintendent. She was born at the hospital when it was at Prairie City and attended 12 years at Dayville School, graduating in 1965.

She attended Eastern Oregon State College and at the University of Oregon received a bachelor’s degree in general science with a minor in education. She taught at Imbler for 30 years in a variety of subjects including math, science, home economics, agriculture, physical education and computer studies.

After a move to Elgin, she served as high school principal and athletic director for the 2000-01 school year. Last year she took on duties of superintendent, principal and athletic director.

“It is exciting to be back at Dayville,” she said. “It will be fun to rebuild relationships and revisit all those people I’ve been away from for a long time.”

Of her return to Dayville School, Berry said, “The elementary hall seemed so long when I was in school. Somehow it now seems much smaller.”