Karch demonstrates leadership, credits Warner School

Alumnus Martin Karch ('93, M.S.) was selected by the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS) to receive the 6,300-member organization's 2001-2002 Leadership and Support Award. The award recognizes outstanding leadership efforts of SAANYS members whose responsibilities require leadership through support services to fellow administrators. Karch is the director of computer services in the Rush-Henrietta School District where he has worked for 29 years. Among his accomplishments, he created 28 district computer labs, oversaw the upgrade of the district's food services point-of-sale system, and connected the district to the community through the development of a new district Web site and a distance-learning room. "My hat is off to Martin for being the visionary that keeps Rush-Henrietta at the leading edge," said Mark Turner, principal of Rush-Henrietta Elementary School.

Karch credits much of his success to his positive experience at the Warner School. He particularly praises the School's emphasis on connecting theory to practice and its "topnotch" faculty. Because classes are small, he noted, all the students get actively involved. "I wouldn't be where I am now without Sister Edwardine and the Warner School," he said. "They pushed me in directions where I didn't actually want to go."

Satisfied graduates are the Warner School's best marketing tools. "If you're going to be an administrator," he advises, "do it right. Go to the Warner School."