The Greene County School District has a familiar face as its new activities director.

Dave Wright grew up on a farm north of Scranton and is a 1991 Jefferson-Scranton High School graduate. He graduated from Buena Vista University and he most recently worked at the Bellevue School District where for the past 11 years he was the district’s AD as well as a teacher and seven years prior to that was a teacher and a coach. He talks about why he wanted to come back home to be the new AD of the Greene County School District.

“Well, I’ve just been impressed with the progression that’s came here in the last few years. This is home. I mean when I interviewed I said, ‘I love Greene County.’ I have great memories, every experience I had here was positive. So hopefully through that I can help guide students and help them have the same experiences that I had that I remember having.”      

Wright tells Raccoon Valley Radio all activities, from sports, to fine arts and student clubs and organizations, are important and give students opportunities to be engaged and enjoy doing something with their fellow classmates. He describes the type of impression he wants to leave other schools when Greene County students have activities with them.

“My goal is that when other schools play us and we leave that people will say, ‘Man, that Greene County outfit, they’re a good group of people, they’re high class, high character people.’ So that’s kind of my goal and my role here is just to kind of lead that. I think we have some great coaches, some great young coaches, that I’m getting to know. So I think just part of that is making sure that we’re doing things on a high level of integrity.”     

Wright believes in being a servant leader and serving others to help the greater good. He’s hoping to have all coaches and directors be positive role models and exemplify the servant leader style to students so they can mimic that style in their own lives. Wright took over as AD on July 1st, after Todd Gordon retired.