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Dean Vogel (right) was elected secretary-treasurer at the March Council meeting. He will serve alongside CTA Vice President-elect David A. Sanchez and President-elect Barbara E. Kerr. |
Dean E. Vogel, a Vacaville elementary school counselor, has been elected secretary-treasurer of CTA. He joins CTA President-elect Barbara E. Kerr and Vice President-elect David A. Sanchez on the new team of leaders that will take office June 26.
Vogel was elected at the March meeting of CTA's State Council of Education, the association's governing body, which is made up of 788 elected representatives from across the state. Kerr and Sanchez, both of whom were running unopposed, were elected in February.
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President Wayne Johnson accepts a standing ovation as he begins his address to Council. |
A member of the Vacaville Teachers Association, Vogel has represented educators in Yolo, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties on CTA's Board of Directors for the last seven years. He was engaged in a three-way race for the office of secretary-treasurer with two other members of the Board, Donnell Jordan, a member of the Desert Sands Teachers Association, and Tom Conry, a member of the Vista Teachers Association.
Kerr, a member of the Riverside County Teachers Association, is serving her second term as CTA vice president. Sanchez, a member of the Santa Maria Elementary Education Association, is serving his second term as CTA secretary-treasurer.
In other races:
- For seats on CTA's Board of Directors, incumbents Dayton Crummey (District B), Bob Nichols (District F), Cynthia Peña (District G), Mignon Jackson (District J/LA), Lloyd Porter (District M) and Lynette P. Henley (At-large) were re-elected. An election for District I's seat will be held at the May meeting.
- For California representatives on NEA's Board of Directors, Patty Taylor won District 11's seat and Cam Werner was re-elected as an alternate. Elections will be held at the May meeting for a new seat representing higher education (District 17).
- For seats on the CTA/ABC Committee, Monica Brown (District A), Sal Zendejas (District E), Suzanne Barkworth-Hinkley (District F), Floyd Worsham (District J/LA), Suzanne Vaugine (District N) and Chris Kakimi (At-large) were elected. An election for District B's seat will be held at the May meeting.
- Council also voted to recommend that the California delegation to the NEA Representative Assembly elect Carolyn Crowder to the NEA Executive Committee.