Southern Hills JVSD Superintendent Charles A. Guarino announces retirement

Charles A. Guarino,Ed.D., superintendent of Southern Hills Joint Vocational School District of Brown and Southern Highland counties, announced his retirement to the Board of Education at the April board meeting, effective Dec. 31.

“I have been with Southern Hills for over eighteen of my 32 years in public education. I have enjoyed all of the many wonderful students and staff that have come through the doors during my time as a Southern Hills employee. I know that I have learned more from the students and staff than I will ever have given back to them. Of course, that is what education is all about, learning, teaching, and helping others.”

During Dr. Guarino’s tenure, the district has raised its level of excellence and is one of the best career-technical schools in the State of Ohio.

Southern Hills was the first career-technical school to receive monies from the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission for building renovation. Those monies furnished 75% of the renovation project, with the passage of the permanent improvement levy in 2005 supplying the remainder.

I wish to thank the past and present superintendents and staff from our six associate schools: Bright Local, Eastern Local, Fayetteville-Perry Local, Georgetown Exempted Village Local, Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local, and Western Brown Local, as well as Brown County and Southern Ohio Educational Service Centers. With the new partnership with the Ohio Board of Regents, we are continually expanding more programs to have college credit options for your high school and adult education students.

Finally, Dr. Guarino stated, “I have been very fortunate and blessed that the Southern Hills JVSD Board of Education and the residents of Brown and Southern Highland counties have given me this opportunity to serve for the last 12-and-one-half years as superintendent, and I wish the very best for the future of the students and staff at Southern Hills!”