New superintendent at Pattonsburg

Bill Pottorff began his duties as the new superintendent at Pattonsburg R-2 on July 1.
Pottorff is starting things off at a unique period in history due to ongoing concerns with the virus pandemic. He says his goal is to “Get school started as normal as we can.”
Born in Mount Ayr, Iowa, in 1976, Pottorff was raised in Hatfield, MO. He graduated from high school at North Harrison in 1994.
He received a degree in agriculture education from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville in 1998. He went on to earn his master’s degree in administration along with his superintendent’s degree, both at NWMSU.
Pottorff taught agriculture at Mound City for one year and Maysville for nine years. He served as the vocation director at Bethany for eight years. He was then principal for K-12 at Cainsville for three years and superintendent there for one year.
Mr. Pottorff has two children, age 13 and 15, who go to South Harrison High School, where one is a seventh grader and the other is a freshman.
“So far I’ve met a lot of supportive people at Pattonsburg,” Mr. Pottorff says. “People who care about the school and the kids.”