A new era is set to begin at Holbrook Indian School. Janet Claymore-Ross, Ed.D., became principal July 1. Claymore-Ross is the first American Indian principal in the 60-year history of the Seventh-day Adventist mission boarding school.

Claymore-Ross earned her bachelor's in elementary education and taught for five years while working on her master's in elementary education with a minor in Indian studies. She went on to be an elementary principal, a federal programs director and a curriculum director in three different American Indian schools. In 1996, she graduated with doctorate in education. Since then, Claymore-Ross has been a principal in an American Indian elementary school, and for the past seven years she has been the executive director of a special education cooperative in Madison, S.D., serving 6,500 students.

Holbrook Indian School is a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school for grades 1-12. The school first opened in August 1946 and recently celebrated 60 years of service to the American Indian and Holbrook communities.