Oregon-Davis Junior/Senior High School has a new principal. The school board formally accepted the resignation of Tim Pletcher Monday and appointed Assistant Principal and Athletic Director Chris Matthys to take his place, according to Superintendent Dr. Don Harman. “So Mr. Matthys will now become our new junior/senior high school principal,” Harman explains. “We are in the process of interviewing for a new junior/senior high school assistant principal and athletic director.”
Harman says he hopes to have a recommendation for the school board within the next few weeks. A special meeting may be held to finalize the hire, rather than waiting until the next regular board meeting on November 19.
Pletcher is leaving Oregon-Davis to take over as interim principal at South Bend Clay High School. He told the South Bend School Board last week that it will be a homecoming for him, both professionally and personally. “My wife who’s here with me, and we are both 1990 graduates of Clay High School,” Pletcher said. “My dad, God rest his soul, is a 1964 graduate of Clay High School. So I’m really excited to walk the halls of Clay High School yet again, to don the purple and gold with pride, and I’m ready to just kind of roll up my sleeves and get to work.”
Pletcher also spent several years as a teacher at South Bend Community Schools before going to Oregon-Davis in 2013.
