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Show Dandoy named new head for State Training School Jeremiah R. Dandoy was named superintendent of the Utah State Training School on Friday of last week. The appointment is effective May 23, according to Dr. Gary Nakao, Director of the Division of Services to the Handicapped. Mr. Dandoy will also serve as Associate Director of the Division, Dr. Nakao said. "We look forward to having Mr. Dandoy on board and feel he will be instrumental in the continuing development of a state wide comprehensive com-prehensive continuum of services to the handicapped," Dr. Nakao stated when announcing the new superintendent. Mr. Dandoy is currently serving as Assistant Director for the Arizona State Department of Economic Security. In this capacity, he is Director of Developmental Disabilities and his duties included superivising the operation of three institutions, several group homes, foster care . and a full range of child and adult day care programs. His experience also includes a five year stint as District Programming Manager and Facility Superintendent Superin-tendent for the State of Arizona. At that time, he was superintendent for a 165 bed facility for the develop-mentally develop-mentally disabled, an 80 bed facility for the mentally ill-developmentally ill-developmentally disabled persons. The new superintendents creaus also include teaching Quantitative Systems and Statistics at Arizona State University and Business Mathematics at Central Arizona College. He was named Administrator of the Year by the Association for Retarded Citizens; his name appears ap-pears in "Who's Who in the West," and he has served with various community and professional organizations. In accepting the job of superin-tedent, superin-tedent, Mr. Dandoy said, "I am pleased and excited to have the challenge and the opportunity to serve the handicapped people of the State of Utah." He said he feels a balanced approach ap-proach is needed with both the training school and a strong community com-munity based system of service to meet each individual's needs. "We must continually strive to provide the highest possible quality of life to those who reside at the Utah State Training School and the best possible working environment and training for the staff." Mr. Dandoy continued, "We also need appropriate community services ser-vices to meet the needs of people who choose to remain at home and to insure that any individual who leaves the Utah State Training School will have equivalent or better services." Mr. Dandoy is the husband of Dr. Suzanne Dandoy, director of the Utah Department of Health, however, according to Dr. Nakao, in counseling with the Regional Office of Health Care Finance in Denver (the agency which administers Medicaid) there appears to be no legal conflict of interest. |