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Troy Gobble, Riverside-Brookfield High School’s interim assistant principal for instruction, will be leaving RB at the end of the school year to take a job as an assistant principal at Adlai E. Stevenson High School.
Monday night the Stevenson High School District 125 board unanimously voted to hire Gobble as Stevenson’s assistant principal for teaching and learning. This afternoon Gobble confirmed he has accepted the position and said he will begin work at Stevenson on July 1.
“I loved my time at RB,” said Gobble. “It’s a wonderful school. I made some great relationships with the community and teachers, and I’ll miss them.”
Stevenson High School is located in Lincolnshire and has an enrollment of 4,345 students, making it one of the largest high schools in Illinois. Gobble will replace Dr. John Carter, who will take over as Stevenson’s principal on July 1, said Jim Conrey the director of public information for Stevenson.
Gobble said that the position at Stevenson was attractive to him.
“It’s a fantastic high school, one of the best in the state, and opportunities like that don’t come along very often, so it was an easy choice,” Gobble said.
Gobble came to RB in 2001 and served as the chair of the science department from 2002 until he was appointed interim assistant principal last June.
This year Gobble was a finalist for the job of principal at RB, but was passed over for the position as the school board accepted the recommendation of District 208 Interim Superintendent David Bonnette to hire Pamela Bylsma, an assistant principal at Hinsdale Central High School.
Once Bylsma takes over as principal on July 1, current RB Interim Principal Tim Scanlon is slated to return to his previous job as assistant principal. That would have bumped Gobble back to his old job as science department chair and physics teacher had he stayed at RB.