#6 - Naomi Kimbell: From Missoula County Public Schools Trustee to Executive Director of Missoula International School - Part 6 - Addedum

                           Part 6 - Addendum

Addendum:  Kimbell Leaves Missoula International School

1.  April 5, 2006 - Missoulian article titled, “Poverello Center names new director” - The article reports that former Naomi Kimbell was named the new executive director of Missoula’s Poverello Center.  It also states that Kimbell had been working as director of development when she took over as acting executive director and then was chosen for the permanent position. 

2.  October 7, 2006 - Missoulian article titled, “Board praises director as she leaves the post”, subtitled, “Kimbell to work on memoirs” – The article states, “The executive director of the Poverello Center will leave the job in December to go back to school.  Naomi Kimbell, who took the job on an acting basis last fall, will now turn her focus to creative writing…”   The article also states, “Kimbell is the daughter of respected novelist and short-story writer Rick DeMarinis and grew up on Wylie Avenue

with neighbors Richard Hugo and Jim Welch.” 


3.  November 26, 2006 - The Missoulian also ran an article covering the news of Naomi’s replacement for the executive director of the Poverello Center, reported by Tyler Christensen on.  The opening paragraph states, “For a relative newcomer to Missoula, Ellie Boldman Hill has already become a familiar and seemingly ubiquitous presence in the local volunteer community.”  The article continues, “Now that she’s been named executive director of the Poverello Center, she hopes to make clear her steadfast commitment to both the community and to a nonprofit that’s struggled to find a long-term leader.  Hill will replace departing director Naomi Kimbell, who resigned to pursue a writing career, starting with a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Montana.  Kimbell led the nonprofit for a little over a year following the October 2005 departure of Joe Bischof, who ran the Poverello for three years.”

*Note:   The April 5^th article reports that Kimbell spent much of her career at the YWCA.  One wonders why it skips over the fact that she served as a trustee on the MCPS school board and that she was subsequently hired as the executive director of the Missoula International School. 

*Note # 2:  The October article states that Kimbell grew up in the Rattlesnake Valley, but later chose to close two schools in the area, showing no loyalty to the neighborhood in which she grew up.