Wrangell Sentinel -

To the Editor:

The beginning of our school year is quickly approaching and soon our students will be walking through our doors at Evergreen Elementary, Stikine Middle School and Wrangell High School. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of you to a new school year.

For those of you who I have not yet had the opportunity to meet, I am your new Superintendent, Patrick Mayer. My

background is quite varied since arriving in Alaska during April of 1982. I worked for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Palmer Research Center for many years conducting field research, was a teacher...