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Anderson did superior work in lengthy career

Superiorland lost a respected educator recently when Karen Anderson called it a career.

An Ontonagon native, Anderson served as CEO of North Star Academy in Marquette, a school chartered by Northern Michigan University since 2007.

Although she became interim superintendent at Gwinn Area Community Schools on Monday, it’s but a temporary position she’ll hold until July 1.

Anderson started secondary education with an associate’s degree in business from Gogebic Community College in 1971, eventually getting her master’s degree in education administration from NMU in 2000.

She started out as an accountant at L’Anse schools, leaving 19 years later as the business manager. Anderson served as assistant superintendent at GACS from 1996-2003, during a time of severe economic upheaval following the closure of the K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in 1995.

Her contributions to North Star include significantly increasing student enrollment, adding preschool through sixth grades, an elementary wing and the Community Environmental Education Program.

Anderson had a lot to do with the success North Star has experienced in recent years.

Although we expect her replacement, Joe Kukulski, will do good work, Anderson will be missed. She was known as an innovator and consensus builder who always put the students first.

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