Electronic Lockers

Excelsior designs, engineers, and produces electronic locker products, that deliver storage, vending and concession solutions, ideal for schools. Manufactured with baked powder coat finishes, the lockers are welded with 16-gauge pan reinforced doors and 18-gauge bodies. Users can choose from 20 standard colors to meet specific needs. With several electronic features, some lockers come with accessories of fingerprint scanners, auto locking systems, as well as thermal detectors.

Excelsior Metal Products LLC

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School District Attempts to Balance Funds and Recreation

PALO ALTO, Calif. — In a country where citizens continue to demand increased performance from an education system that lost large amounts of funding to the recession, the political climate still reflects a strong distaste among the electorate for any level of tax increase, partially because the recession has also created such hard times for individual voters. This seemingly intractable combination of events has caused many school leaders and boards to turn to previously unseemly solutions for raising or maintaining funding streams.

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David F. Hales

David F. Hales was selected president and chief executive officer of Second Nature, the Boston-based advocacy organization committed to promoting sustainability through higher education. Prior to assuming the position, Hales was the fifth president of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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Marsha Perry

Marsha Perry joins Vanir Construction Management Inc., as the firm’s senior education planner, where she will focus on clients in the K-12 and higher education markets. Based in Sacramento, Calif., Perry will be responsible for developing business through early planning and related services. She comes to the company with more than 20 years of operations, business development, and educational facilities planning and funding experience.

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