Tim Joy Appointed Principal of
Portland School
De La Salle North Catholic High School in Portland, Oregon, recently announced Tim Joy as the new principal of the school. Tim has been a faculty member at the school for the past decade and served as the interim principal for the past eighteen months.
A native of Portland, Tim is an alumnus of La Salle High School (now La Salle Catholic College Preparatory) in Milwaukie, Oregon. He attended Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, also a Lasallian institution, as well as Portland State University. In 1983, he returned to La Salle High School as a teacher. While still a member of the La Salle faculty, he began teaching part-time at the newly-established De La Salle North Catholic in 2001. The following year, he became a full-time member of the staff at the Portland school when he was appointed vice principal. As an administrator, he continued to teach Religion, English and System Dynamics.
Matt Powell, President of De La Salle North Catholic, notes that Tim Joy’s Lasallian values and experience provide him with skills that will serve him well at the racially and culturally diverse school. He praised Tim as an educator who “leads with passion, strength, compassion, and has a vision to achieve student success.”
New Principal at
San Francisco’s De Marillac Academy
Susan Smith has been named principal of De Marillac Academy in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. She comes to the school with extensive experience in Catholic education in the Bay Area, most recently as assistant principal and dean of students at St. Francis Solano School in Sonoma.
Ms. Smith hails from the Bay Area. She received a bachelor’s degree from Humboldt State University; teaching credentials in biological science, math, and music from San Francisco State University; and a credential in educational leadership from Sonoma State University. Her teaching resume includes work at St. Paul of the Shipwreck School in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point and summer school instruction at Lick Wilmerding High School. During her ten-year commitment to St. Francis Solano School, she taught science and math before her appointment as assistant principal.
Susan is a dedicated proponent of Catholic education where “children are greeted by teachers who love and respect them and who nurture them, not just in academics, but in the Catholic traditions of social justice, service, leadership and Christian love.”
She and her husband live in Novato, where she pursues her avocation as a classical pianist and her interest in wildlife photography.
