About Mrs. McIntosh

Janet McIntosh, teaching principal at Fourteenth Street School in Bangor for the past six years, has been named principal at the Washington Street School. Ms. McIntosh has been a resident of Brewer since 1980 and served for six years on the Brewer City Council (as Janet Cobb), from 1994 to 2000, including two years as mayor and two years as deputy mayor. A native of Jersey City, NJ, Ms. McIntosh graduated from Montclair State College in New Jersey. Since her family summered in Wayne, ME, near Winthrop, she decided to attend graduate school at the University of Maine in Orono and in 1971, she was hired as an assistant teacher at the Harlow St. School in Bangor, In September 1972, she was hired to teach child development at Bangor High School. After two years at Bangor High School, she transferred to Downeast School in Bangor as a kindergarten teacher. In 1991, she was trained in Reading Recovery, and she returned to Downeast School as a Reading Recovery and Title 1 Teacher. She moved to Fourteenth Street School in 1995 as Reading Recovery and Title I teacher. In 2000, she became principal and Reading Recovery teacher at Fourteenth Street. Ms. McIntosh has two children who attended Brewer schools, a son, who is terminal supervisor for a trucking company in Hermon, and a daughter who just completed her first year as an English teacher at Bangor High School. Her father was a teacher and administrator in Jersey City, and her brother and sister are also teachers. "I'm very excited to come to Brewer," Ms. McIntosh says. "Public service has always been very important to me. I've always thought it was an honor to be a public servant." She notes that the school population in Brewer is growing, which is unusual in northern and eastern Maine. Ms. McIntosh says the school department's Communityof Caring program has been instrumental in fostering those connections and has helped make Brewer a child-friendly city. "This is a town that cares about its children," she says. "I'm very happy to be here."