Grade school principal Kay Bedolli has resigned and announced her retirement.
Her last day at Dallas City Elementary School will be June 29.
This was Bedolli's 28th year as an education professional.
Bedolli came to the Hancock County School District 6 years ago from the Rochester, School District.
She was high school principal at Dallas City for two years before the high school was deactivated in 2001 and the district's high school students were tuitioned in at Nauvoo-Colusa High School.
The Riverton, native received her bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 1970.
She earned her master's degree in counseling and master's degree in school administration from Sangamon State University.
Her successor at Dallas City will be Gary Miller, a Plymouth, native who currently is a kindergarten through eighth grade English and reading teacher and high school drama instructor in the Warsaw, School District.
Miller received his bachelor's degree in elementary education with endorsements in reading and social studies from Western Illinois University, Macomb in 1986. He earned his master's degree in school administration from William Woods College, Fulton, Mo., in 2004.
Miller also has taught in the Weslaco, Texas, and Hamilton, school systems.
He was named The Hawk Eye's Newspaper in Education Teacher of the Year in 2002.
Miller, who will begin his new post July 1, signed a three-year contract with an annual starting salary of $55,000.