Kingfisher Public Schools’ certified staff is currently complete after the board of education Monday approved a pair of resignations, but filled those positions and two others.

“This fills all the pieces to our puzzle right now,” Superintendent Jason Sternberger said toward the end of the June regular meeting. “We have a couple of lay coaching positions to look at, but for the time being, we’ve got everything filled.”

The personnel moves came at the end of a 35-minute meeting and signified one longtime teacher retiring and a former teacher returning.

Vicky Allen tendered her resignation after a 44-year teaching career.

“The Bible says to everything there is a season and I believe my season as a teacher at Kingfisher Public Schools is nearing an end,” Allen wrote in her resignation letter.

“It’s been a heck of a 44- year tenure and I would not exchange those memories for anything.”

Allen was most recently teaching in Yellowjacket Academy, the district’s alternative education program.

“She really impacted some lives,” Sternberger told the board. “I commend her on her career.”

Allen’s retirement along with that of Lynn Barnett’s earlier this year, left two major teaching voids in the alternative education department.

Both were soon filled as the board approved the hiring of Mark Redwine and Libby Wood.

Redwine is a KHS graduate and former teacher and coach in the district.

He taught U.S. History here from 1996-2007.

Wood has been the Family and Consumer Science teacher at Geary for the last two years.

She’s the wife of Jay Wood, the KHS assistant principal and athletic director.

Board members also approved hiring Melinda Rowan for high school English and Aniessa Edsall for middle school special education math and some potential coaching positions.

The English position came open when Bailie Hollingshead tendered her resignation, which was also accepted at the meeting.

She said her family will be moving out of Kingfisher, which affected her decision.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and am honored that you gave me the opportunity as a first-year teacher,” she wrote. “It was a truly wonderful experience and I am so thankful for the opportunity.”