(Update) — Audubon Superintendent Brett Gibbs reports the Audubon School Board has approved a contract for Quentin Stanerson as the new 5 – 12 Principal. Their decision was made during a Special Board meeting held this (Friday) morning.  Mr. Stanerson comes to Audubon from Center Point, IA and has been a teacher and coach at North Linn MS/HS since 2004.  At North Linn Community School Mr. Stanerson taught high school social studies and over the years has coached football, wrestling and track.  He has an extensive background in working with the implementation of the Iowa Core and served on North Linn’s Teacher Leadership planning committee and Technology committee.

Mr. Stanerson was a Non-Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and spent four years in the Iowa State Legislature where he served on the Education and Veterans affairs committees. Mr. Stanerson and his wife have three kids and will be moving to Audubon this summer to begin his new position. He succeeds Eric Trager as 5-12 Principal, when Trager succeeds Brett Gibbs as Superintendent at the end of this school year. Gibbs is retiring at the end of June.