LIBERTY, NY — On Tuesday, May 6, the Liberty Central School Board appointed Liberty High School (LHS) Assistant Principal Stephen Matuszak as LHS principal, effective July 1. He will replace Dr. Derek Adams, who was named assistant superintendent.

Mr. Matuszak has served as assistant principal at LHS since April 2020.

He grew up in the Binghamton, NY, area. He began his educational career as a substitute in the Maine-Endwell school district after earning a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a focus on social studies from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Matuszak moved to Sullivan County in 2007 to take a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teaching position at RJK Middle School in the Monticello Central School District, where he also was a coach. He was the school’s behavior specialist in his final year. He also earned a master’s degree from the University of Scranton in curriculum development and design, and completed his certificate of advanced studies in educational leadership from SUNY New Paltz in 2019.

A Liberty resident, he is married and has two daughters.