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Dan Curry, former Superintendent of Pocahontas County Schools, has been elected Delawareﾒs Superintendent of the Year for 2011 by the Delaware Chief State School Officers.ﾠ He has been known to credit his 13 years of administrative experience in Pocahontas County as the best professional training program in his career.ﾠ Curry arrived in Pocahontas County in 1977 at the age of 24 to serve as principal of the Marlinton Middle School.ﾠ Given that Curry was a common name in the area, he remembers often being asked ﾓNow, whose boy are you?ﾔ

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In 1978 he became principal of Marlinton Elementary and in 1982 he moved into the central office.ﾠ Over the years he managed a variety of assignments there from curriculum to federal programs to personnel and new construction.ﾠ He even drove a school bus on a couple of occasions.

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A native of Fairmont, Curry attended Fairmont State College and earned master and doctorate degrees from West Virginia University.ﾠ After leaving Pocahontas County in 1990, he served as Superintendent in Hancock County and in Wood County.

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In 2003, following 29 years of West Virginia service, he was appointed Superintendent of Lake Forest School District in Kent County, Delaware-ﾠ a rural community about 12 miles south of Dover and 35 miles north of Rehoboth Beach.ﾠ The Lake Forest District has six schools and 4000 students.ﾠ It stretches from the Maryland state line to the Delaware Bay and includes the towns of Felton, Frederica and Harrington, home to the Delaware State Fair.

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His wife, Carolyn, is Chief of Staff and Vice-President for Institutional Advancement at Delaware State University.ﾠ His son Jarrod, 27, teaches English in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, and his daughter, Betsy, 25, will soon return to the United States following three years in the Peace Corps in Paraguay.

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Curry still returns to Pocahontas County several times a year to hunt and fish with his brother, Dave Curry, of Green Bank, and old friends Ernie Shaw, Roger Trusler, Bob Keller, Luis Soriano and Delmos Barb.