The board of directors for the Monadnock Community Early Learning Center, a nonprofit organization established in 1970, announce the hire of its new executive director, William Gurney. The outstanding professional experience and business acumen that Gurney brings to this position is an excellent advancement opportunity for MCELC.
Before settling into education administration, Gurney lived in Morocco and the Virgin Islands, where he taught and coached at American schools. After earning his master’s in education from Keene State College, he served as a middle school assistant principal in Milford and as principal in Westmoreland. He received a CAGS degree in education leadership from Plymouth State College while serving as co-superintendant in the Keene School District. Since retiring from SAU 29, he has served as president of the Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and as interim executive director of the INSPIRE School for Autism in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Gurney serves on many boards, the most longstanding of which is Brantwood Camp, where he was the director in the early 1980s. He currently serves on the Silver Lake Association, the Silver Lake Land Trust, the town of Dublin Budget Committee, and is an alternate to the Zoning Board of Adjustment in Dublin.
During his membership in the Elm City Rotary in Keene, Gurney traveled to El Salvador three times to assist in the building of homes and a school and is currently vice president of the Monadnock Rotary Club.
He has lived in Dublin with his wife Margaret for more than 30 years. The eldest son is a marine engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and the younger son is a civil engineer in Massachusetts.