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Assistant Principals

Mr. Joseph Dymek
Ms. Nicole Harryman
Mr. Samuel Richman
Mr. Martin Vandenberge

Principal - Mr. Sterlind S. Burke, Sr.  
   


Sterlind S. Burke, Sr. is currently the Principal of Hammond High School in
Columbia, Maryland. He has been a Howard County Public School
professional educator since 1975. As a professional educator at the middle
school level, Mr. Burke taught social studies for 14 years and served as a grade level
team leader at the middle school level. His career as a middle level school-based
administrator began in 1989, where he served two and a half years as an
assistant principal. Burke has spent the last sixteen and a half years as a
Principal, with most of the years being spent at the middle school level. He has
received recognition such as Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (1991),
Excellence in Minority Achievement Award (2005) and the Middle Level Met
Life/NASSP State Principal of the Year (2003).

Sterlind S. Burke, Sr. has been a member of the Maryland Middle School
Association, the National Middle School Association, the Maryland Association
of Secondary School Principals as well as the National Association of
Secondary School Principals. He was part of a national Junior Achievement
Blue Ribbon Panel (2003) to evaluate the middle school curriculum of the
organization. He has served on the Superintendent’s Advisory Council on
Business Education Partnerships (Howard County/ 1997-2003), the National
Assessment of Educational Progress Economics Planning Committee (2001-
2002) and was the President of the Howard County Secondary School Administrators’ Association (1994-1995).

Burke has also served on a number of Maryland State level committees and
task force. He has served as a member of the Maryland Task Force on the Education
of African American Males (2003-2004), Maryland State K-16 Leadership Council (2003-2004), Maryland State PreK-16 Workgroup (2004-Present), Middle School Certification Committee (2004), and the Maryland Technology Literacy by Grade 8 Advisory Council(2005-2006) and the Maryland Instructional Technology
Advisory Council (2006-Present). As an educator, he has always emphasized the importance of educating all studentsto the highest level, regardless of the challenges the students, parents, or staff may face.

 
Assistant Principals
Mr. Joseph Dymek
9th Grade Administrator
   
Joseph Dymek was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and graduate degrees from the University
of Maryland and Loyola College. In 1978, he began teaching
horticulture at the Howard Vocational-Technical Center. In 1995, he was a guidance counselor at Burleigh Manor
Middle School and was appointed Assistant Principal of Patuxent Valley Middle School in 2001. This is Mr.
Dymek's second year as Assistant Principal at Hammond
 

High School where his responsibilities include Ninth Grade Administrator and Special Education.
 
Ms. Nicole Harryman
10th Grade Administrator
 
Ms. Nicole Harryman has been an educator for thirty seven years. She was raised
and educated in France, where she received a Master's Degree in French Linguistics from the Universite de Nancy. She also holds a Master's Degree in Administration and Supervision from Loyola College. Ms. Harryman has been an administrator for ten years. Prior to becoming an administrator, Ms. Harryman taught French,
German and Latin in Baltimore City for eleven years. For sixteen years, she taught French and German at Mount Hebron High School in Howard County. Ms. Harryman's responsibilities include the supervision of the Art, English, Music
and Social Studies departments, G&T Independent Research and working with
new teachers. She is the administrator for Grade 10 and will work with that class through school year 2010.
 
Mr. Samuel Richman
12th Grade Administrator
  Mr. Richman received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1989. He then received a Masters from Towson State University in 1991. He began teaching Math and Science at Deer Park Middle School in Baltimore County. There, he served as academic team leader as well as math department chair. He then worked as a teacher mentor in several other schools before becoming an assistant principal at Randallstown High School. In 2003, Mr. Richman decided to join his wife and
work for the HowardCounty Public School system. He worked at Oakland Mills
High School teaching Math and Science, and worked a few days a month in the
front office. He then came to Hammond High School as an Assistant Principal. Mr. Richman lives in Howard County with his wife and three children.
 
Mr. Martin Vandenberge
11th Grade Administrator
Mr. Vandenberge is a graduate of Towson University and possesses a Master's Degree is Human Resource Development. He taught Spanish levels I-IV at Parkville Middle School and Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. Mr. Vandenberge also served as Assistant
Principal at New Town High School in Baltimore County before arriving at Hammond HS in 2006. He also coached
for 14 years including stints at Mt. Hebron HS and CCBC-Catonsville. Mr.Vandenberge lives in Howard County with
 

his wife and two children.

 
 
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