Mr. Dan Severson

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  www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=799219 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/12/2009    Last Visited: 5/12/2009  

  Cambridge Central School District superintendent Daniel Severson said school will remain open, but staff are taking extreme care to disinfect areas in the school nightly. The district is following the recommendations of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, such has promoting personal hygiene, encouraging parents to keep sick kids home and using hand wipes in classrooms that don't have sinks.
  
  "We're focusing on using materials that will sanitize desks, chairs and things in high traffic areas like water coolers," Severson said. School staff will also disinfect buses everyday, the superintendent said. Severson urged parents to not allow their students to go to school if they are experiencing symptoms such as a persistent cough or fever. "We're looking carefully at students who exhibit any of the symptoms of the H1N1 virus," the superintendent said. "Students who appear to be sick will be sent home."
  
  Severson said he would consider cancelling classes if more swine flu cases were confirmed or if there weren't enough staff members to keep the school operating.

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  www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_12357585?source=most_emaile - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/13/2009    Last Visited: 5/13/2009  

  CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — A Cambridge Central School student has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as "swine flu," according to Interim District Superintendent Dan Severson, and other students with flu-like symptoms have been sent home as a precaution.
  
  Severson said Tuesday he was contacted Saturday by the Washington County Department of Health and notified of the infected student. Severson said the department would not release the student's name or age. Severson said he informed teachers on Sunday, and called a staff meeting for Monday.
  
  Hygiene education program
  
  He said a letter was sent home to parents requesting them to keep sick children at home. In response to the situation, Severson said the school will continue with its hygiene education programs, which ask students to wash their hands regularly and to cover their mouths when they cough.
  
  Severson said that for the next two weeks, the school will alter its cleaning methods. He said disinfectants will be used more in high-traffic areas and on surfaces that regularly come into contact with students, such as bus handrails, desks and water fountains.
  
  Severson said the school has hired an additional nurse on a short-term basis, bringing the school's total to three. He said students exhibiting any two of the five symptoms of swine flu are being sent home. He said 12 students were sent home Monday and 16 Tuesday with flu-like
  
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  symptoms.
  
  Severson said those sent home were not sick with swine flu. He said teachers also are being asked to stay home if they feel ill.
  
  "The overall strategy for this is to keep healthy students in school and send sick students home," Severson said.
  
  He said the number of students out because of anti-flu precautions is 20 students higher than average. He said the measures will be kept in place for at least two weeks.

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  www.troyrecord.com/site/news.asp?brd=1170 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/3/2001    Last Visited: 3/10/2007  

  When Dan Severson, principal of Cambridge High School, first read Department of Education's letter, he realized that his school, nicknamed the Indians, fell under what was being described.His first move was to gather all of the Native American students in the school and ask them, along with their parents, how they felt about the nickname."They all said they felt proud about the nickname," Severson said.
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  Severson went so far as to say the staff of the commissioner is not doing their job."I really don't understand where the commissioner is coming from," the principal said."I don't think they did their homework on this.""It appears to me to be a slam dunk (on keeping the nickname)," he added."Why in the world would you change a logo when the Native Americans in the district themselves support it?"Severson credits Honyoust with helping him throughout process by talking for Native Americans in the area, as well as giving him an overall education on the subject."He's been tremendous," Severson said."Without him I certainly wouldn't be speaking with such authority on the subject."

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  www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_6279355?source=most_viewed - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/2/2007    Last Visited: 7/2/2007  

  DAN SEVERSON
  
  Principal
  
  Cambridge Central School

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  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 6/5/2009  

  Severson says, "They told me there was one confirmed case and that the student was not at school and was recovering at home.
  
  Cambridge Superintendent Dan Severson sent a letter home to parents today and his staff already responding to the news. He has hired a substitute nurse to help the 2 already on staff and high traffic areas in the school along with desks and water fountains are getting scrubbed down each night.
  
  Severson says, "our objective is to keep healthy students in school and sick students were asking them to stay home."
  
  Severson says the school will remain open according to CDC guidelines that suggest only schools with multiple cases of the virus and not enough staff to close.

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  www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_9860121 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/12/2008    Last Visited: 7/13/2008  

  We are pleased to announce that under this plan, current high school Principal Dan Severson will step up to lead the district as interim superintendent for the 2008-09 school year, effective this month.Mr. Severson will have full authority for all aspects of district management, including personnel decisions, management of the district budget and business operations, negotiation of contracts, implementation of the EXCEL energy project, and day to day management.
  
  Superintendent Troy will work closely with Mr. Severson over the next week to ensure a smooth transition.
  
  In addition, Mr. Severson will assist and advise the board and community during the search for a new superintendent for 2009-10 and beyond.The board intends to begin this search in the fall.Finally, Mr. Severson has informed the board of his intention to retire at the end of the 2008-09 school year.
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  We believe that with the support of Mr. Severson and the full administrative team it will be possible to run the high school well without an associate principal next year.Mr. Niesz and Mr. Severson agree.

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  Bennington Banner - Cambridge student, 17, and two... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/27/2006    Last Visited: 5/27/2006  

  On Friday night, high school Principal Dan Severson called the accident "tragic."
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  Severson graduated from Cambridge Central School in 1960, a few years ahead of Alan Bell.
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  Severson said that he will meet with faculty on Tuesday to make memorial plans.
  
  Autopsies were scheduled to be performed at Albany Medical Center.

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  Bennington Banner - City & Town - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/19/2004    Last Visited: 8/19/2004  

  Principal Dan Severson, for grades 7 through 12, said Wednesday he had been asked by a staff member to ban the skinny-strapped tops; the school already has a policy against showing underwear - bra straps and boxers - but he is adding the ban on "spaghetti straps" to make it perfectly clear.
  
  "I try to stay out of fashion issues," said Severson."This is not Mr. Severson making some kind of decree."
  
  The school will take its time easing into the strap ban, Severson said, expecting that by spring all students will be aware of the new rule.The principal will meet with each class once school begins to highlight new sections of the code.
  
  No one attended Severson's open-door meeting to discuss the changes, but he said a handbook will be distributed to students and parents at the beginning of the school year.
  
  "I don't see any bold adjustments to the code," Severson said."Maybe some minor ones."
  
  The principal also rewrote sections of the policy to spell out that not only is it against the rules to use drugs or weapons at school, they are also prohibited on school grounds.Also, Severson said he is considering making a rule against purposefully and knowingly making false charges against another person at the school.

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  Bennington Banner - Despite a new year, no contract... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/6/2007    Last Visited: 1/6/2007  

  School Interim Superintendent Roger McQuain, Principal Dan Severson and Associate Principal George Niesz were disciplined for allowing the police to interrogate children without the notification of their parents.

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  Bennington Banner - Editorials - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/3/2005    Last Visited: 11/3/2005  

  Grades 7-12 Principal Daniel Severson sees the problem and the decorated veteran, who has proved that he fears little, is willing to tackle the issue head on.For that, he earns our support.

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