PORT ANGELES — Roosevelt Elementary School Principal Doug Hayman is leaving for a position in Alaska after nearly 21 years with the Port Angeles School District.
Superintendent of Port Angeles Schools Jane Pryne announced Hayman’s resignation, which will be effective in June at the end of the school year, on Wednesday.
Hayman and his wife, Michelle Hayman, will move to the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where he has accepted a position as principal at Tustumena Elementary School in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District.
“We wish Doug the very best in this new life adventure,” Pryne said.
“He has had a tremendous impact on many students and their families throughout the Port Angeles community and will be greatly missed.”
Hayman’s resignation is pending School Board approval at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Central Services Building, 216 E. Fourth St.
A job announcement for the new principal position will be made prior to the end of March, Pryne said.
District transitions
Hayman was “an integral part of several school district transitions,” Pryne said.
As principal of Fairview Elementary School, he was deeply involved in the closure of the school at 166 Lake Farm Road in 2007.
After the closure, he became principal of Roosevelt Elementary School.
“Doug has worked tirelessly and successfully to build a sense of community at Roosevelt Elementary, and for that, we are very grateful,” Pryne said.
Said Hayman: “My experience in Port Angeles has prepared me well for this next adventure.
“I will miss the people of Port Angeles, especially my Roosevelt family.
“My former students and my ‘grand-students’ (children of my students) are throughout the school system from high school to new kindergartners.
“I have enjoyed being a part of their lives.”
Hayman said Tustumena Elementary is a kindergarten-through sixth-grade rural school 15 miles south of Kenai, Alaska.
It has about 160 students.
Hayman began his teaching career in the district in 1991 as a fifth-grade teacher at the former Monroe Elementary School.
From 1997 through 1999, he taught science at Stevens Middle School, where he became interim assistant principal while serving as a teacher on special assignment in 1999-2000.
After that, he became assistant principal at Stevens for an additional two years.
He served as Fairview principal beginning in 2002.
Hayman received his bachelor’s degree in elementary education and teaching certificate from the University of Idaho and his master’s degree in education, majoring in educational technology, from City University of Seattle.