Diocese appoints new school officials

Staff report

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The Diocese of Youngstown’s Office of Catholic Schools has appointed new officials.

Nicholas Wolsonovich has been named acting superintendent, and Randal Rair has been appointed assistant superintendent for government programs, athletics and institutional advancement.

Michael Skube, superintendent since 2002, has been appointed assistant to the bishop for regional school planning and high school board development.

Wolsonovich served as superintendent of schools for the diocese from 1985 to 2001. Before that appointment, he was principal at Ursuline High School from 1982 to 1985. From 2001 to 2008, he was superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago and in 2008, became superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Orlando.

Skube will assume responsibility for the formation of boards of specific jurisdiction at three diocesan high schools that don’t have boards. He will assist in the ongoing development of three more existing high school boards.

He will also work with the professional consultants who are developing a plan for the future of diocesan schools in Stark County.

Skube will assist the high schools as they transition to the president/principal model of governance and institutional advancement.

Rair, a graduate of Ursuline, has been a teacher at the high-school and middle-school levels for seven years and was an assistant principal for a year.

He taught multiple subjects, including psychology, law in action and U.S. history at Cardinal Mooney High School and at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Md.

His first full-time teaching position was as a severe-behavior- handicapped teacher at Youngstown’s East Middle School.

He also has 12 years’ coaching experience.