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Steve Amore
Twin Valley SD
Work Phone: (610) 286-8600 Ext 1649
Email: samore@tvsd.org
Steve Amore started working in the hospitality industry as a teenager. After graduating from high school he attended Penn State University and studied Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management and Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management. During his final semester at Penn State he traveled abroad to attend a hotel school in Switzerland. Upon his return he did an internship in Florida before accepting a job at the Disney Village Hilton. He continued to work in hotels and restaurants for the next five years until returning to Pennsylvania to start a family. He worked at Albright College in Reading for 14 years running the food service operations. For the past six years he has served as Director of Operations and Food Service for the Twin Valley School District in Chester county.
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Amy Keeler
Brownsville ASD
Amy Keeler
5 Falcon Drive | Brownsville, PA 15417
Phone #: (724) 785-2021
Email: akeeler@basd.org
Although Amy’s career did not start in school food service, she now loves it so much she says that if she could go back in time, she would have gone into school food service from the beginning.
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Kelly Price
Manheim Township SD
Phone #: (717) 519-1504 ext. 1504
Email: priceke@mtwp.net
Kelly Price, the school food service director at Manheim Township SD, credits a fellow, now retired, school food service director for taking her under her wing and mentoring her when she began her school food service career. Kelly believes she would not be where she is today without this generous support and mentoring. It’s not surprising, then, that Kelly is eager to give back and help other directors as they begin their careers.
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Mellisa Schad
Avonworth SD
Mellisa Schad
258 Josephs Lane | Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Phone #: (412) 366-6360 ext. 1612
Email: mschad@avonworth.k12.pa.us
Melissa has been the Food Service Director for Avonworth School District since June of 2014. For the 16 years prior to that, she worked for a Food Service Management Company in public, private, technical, and special needs schools. The company operated an unofficial mentorship program through which Melissa learned from an experienced director and eventually began to mentor assistant directors as she became a veteran.
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