San Gabriel : New High School Principal
The Board of Education has approved the appointment of Dan Mooney as the first principal for the city’s first high school.
“My intention is to create the finest school in the San Gabriel Valley,” Mooney, an assistant principal at Temple City High School, said after being confirmed by the board last Monday. The 52-year-old educator said the opportunity to open a new school is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
An assistant principal at Temple City since 1979, Mooney started his career as a teacher at a Roman Catholic school in 1962 and in 1964 began teaching and coaching in nearby San Marino. He is married with three children, all of whom went through the public school system. His wife, Sue, teaches at Longden Elementary School in Temple City.
The district is balloting parents on a name for the high school, which is expected to open in September on the 14-acre Jefferson Intermediate School campus with a ninth grade class. Parents will choose between Gabrielino, after the area’s first settlers, or Jefferson for President Thomas Jefferson. The name will be announced next month.
The ninth-graders will use the old school facility, pending construction of buildings.
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