Dan Oakley is the new superintendent at Fieldcrest. Mr. Oakley started his position on July 1 replacing outgoing superintendent Josh Olsen who took a position at Olympia.
Mr. Oakley grew up in southern Illinois just north of Newton, Illinois. He graduated from Newton Community High School in 1982 and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics Education at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston Illinois in 1986. He received his Masters of Science degree in Educational Administration from Western Illinois University in Macomb Illinois in 1997, and his Education Specialist certification in 2007.
He is currently enrolled in the Doctoral program at Western Illinois University, with anticipated graduation winter 2013 (having completed all but the dissertation).
His wife Beth is an administrative assistant for the Vice-President for Student Services at WIU. They have raised two children, Andy (married to Callie) and Amy (married to Curtis). Andy and Callie are geologists for Anadarko Oil in Denver, CO. Amy is a Crime Scene Technician in Lakewood, CO, and Curtis is an EMT studying to become a physician's assistant.
Dan said his hobbies are music (both listening and singing), reading, writing, watching baseball, as well as giving the family pets - a Himalayan cat and a Shicon puppy - lots of attention. He currently resides in Minonk while his wife commutes between Minonk and Macomb on weekends.