Thousand Islands Secondary School will have a familiar face as their new principal for the upcoming school year.

Gordon Cooke, the current principal at Smiths Falls and District Collegiate Institute, will take over for Don Lewis.

Cooke spent most of his teaching career at Thousand Islands Secondary School, beginning as a math teacher, then becoming department head and later, the school's vice-principal. He worked at the school from 1983 until 2006.

I am returning to TISS with many fond memories, Cooke said.

Cooke said he has set goals to achieve while principal at Thousand Islands Secondary School, a position he said will likely mark the end of his education career.

I hope to achieve the same goals I had in my three-and-a-half years at Smiths Falls, he said.

That is to ensure that everyone uses their strength, skills and passions in the best interests of all students and in pursuit of a 90 per cent graduation rate.

Current principal Lewis has been appointed principal at Seaway District High School in Iroquois.

Lewis has been principal at Thousand Islands Secondary School for three years, and, before that, served as principal at Brockville Collegiate Institute for three years.

He previously worked as a teacher and a guidance counsellor at Seaway District High School.

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