As it turns out, David Glover will not be the athletic director and director of operations at Kingfisher Public Schools.

He will, instead, be the 20 ^th person to hold the job as KPS superintendent.

Glover on Monday was unanimously approved to take over the position during a special meeting of the Kingfisher Board of Education.

The 5-0 vote came after nearly two hours of executive session during which Glover was twice asked into the room with board members.

Monday was the third time in which Glover had met with board members to discuss the superintendent position.

He first interviewed with members for two hours during a May 25 special meeting, two days after Dr. Daniel Craig submitted his resignation after one year on the job.

Craig has accepted a position at Chisholm Trail Technology Center.

Another special meeting was held last Tuesday during which Glover again met with members. Shortly after that meeting, Monday’s meeting was called.

A proposed executive session and the hiring of a superintendent were the only items on the noon agenda.

President Jim Perdue, Vice President Charles Walker, Clerk Dana Golbek and members Terry Payne and Carly Franks entered into executive session at 12:01 p.m.

They called Glover into the session at 12:31 p.m. and he exited at 1:11 p.m.

The board remained in the executive session and then asked Glover back in at 1:22 p.m.

The executive session ended at 1:56 p.m.

Walker made the motion to hire Glover and Franks seconded it before all other members voted in favor.

Glover has spent the last nine years as an assistant director at the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association.

That came after a long career in education, during which he had previously served as superintendent at Newkirk, Bethel and Okarche public schools.

He was already set to become a KPS employee prior to Monday.

At May’s regular meeting, Glover was approved as the district’s new athletic director and director of operations.

A few weeks later, the superintendent’s position was open and Glover said he was definitely interested.

“This is the best school system. It’s the state leader,” he said.

“I was excited to be part of it as an athletic director and director of operations, but now I’m even more excited to lead this district for the next number of years.”

The board voted to give Glover a two-year contract in hiring him.

Craig is a Kingfisher High School alum who returned to his hometown to succeed Jason Sternberger after his 10-year stint as superintendent.

However, Craig opted to step away from the role last month.

“In the end, I don’t think I was the right fit for this school board,” Craig told the Times & Free Press previously.

“I believe the school board would be better able to manage the day-to-day operations of the school district with a different superintendent who is a better fit.

“And that superintendent would need to be able to implement the goals of individual board members effectively and I’m just not that guy.”

Among the reaction to that was that of sixth grade science teacher Melody Kuehn at last Monday’s regular meeting of the board of education.

“There are people in the community who are not happy about how this whole situation has been handled by you all,” she said during the public comment portion of the meeting.

“There is a man who wanted to come here and do good things for the district (indicating Craig) but when he’s micromanaged to the point he can’t do his job it’s not going to work.”

Glover said a lot of areas were covered between himself and board members during their multiple meetings.

“I’ve had great discussions with the board,” Glover said after being hired.

“And they’re on the same page with me in regards to the direction the district needs to go.”

Glover’s new role becomes effective July 1. Among his first orders of business, he said, is to find someone to fill the role for which he was originally hired.

“I’m going to do some of those things myself, but there are still some parts of that job where we need to find someone,” he said. “The main one is athletic director. That’s an important role and we need someone to fill those duties.”

Glover also said he plans to meet as much of the staff as possible.

“I hope to do something before school starts where I can meet with the teachers,” Glover said. “I’m really excited to meet and talk with them. I know we’ve got the best teachers and some of the best programs in the state. I can’t wait to get started.”

Craig will end his tenure with one final board meeting, Thursday, June 30. began early this year with harvesting in southwest Oklahoma – Grandfield and Tipton – beginning May 18.

The wheat commission declined to provide yield estimates for the state until more reports come in.

“We did have a report of one field making 41 bushels per acre down by Chattanooga,” a spokesperson said. “Proteins have been favorable ranging mostly from 11 to 13%, with a report of one protein making 18.36%.”

Test weights ranging across the state are all over the board from 58 to 61 pounds per bushel, with a report of a poorer field coming in with a test weight of 53 pounds per bushel.

Considering the extreme hot temperatures, the test weights have been stronger than anticipated, and it looks like they might be better once producers start getting into better wheat, the spokesperson said.

The wheat commission also reported:

“In northern Oklahoma on early samples, it is thought test weights will still be favorable because the wheat was not fully ripe. Yields have gotten better as harvest has moved north, in the Cashion, Okarche, Kingfisher and Omega region.

“We have had reports from 15 bushels to as high as 64 bushels per acre. (The average for this region is being reported in the high 20’s to low 30’s.)

“Proteins across Oklahoma are ranging from 10 to 17 percent, but overall, most of the crop is in the 12% to 14% range, with much higher proteins in the western corridors of the state reporting in the 13% to 15% range.

“It should be noted we are seeing reports for sprout damage now occurring in locations across the state, but the sprout has been minimal with reports of 2% to 5% on some loads depending on variety and location.”