Ginny Gong To Head Community Use of Public Facilities

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Contact: David Weaver, 301-217-6530
For Immediate Release: May 12, 1998

Ginny Gong To Head
Community Use of Public Facilities

Ginny Gong, former Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) administrator, has been selected as the new director of the County's Community Use of Public Facilities, the office responsible for promoting and coordinating the use of County facilities -- such as schools and local government buildings -- by the public for local programs, meetings and events.

Among her duties as director will be to work with MCPS principals and administrative staff to oversee and coordinate procedures for scheduling public facilities for community use and to survey community needs to ensure appropriate and efficient use of public facilities.

In her new capacity, Gong will also serve as executive director of the Interagency Coordinating Board, which is the policy-making authority for the Office of Community Use of Public Facilities and its Citizens Advisory Committee.

For the past six years, Gong has been employed by the MCPS, most recently as an administrator for community relations and human resources management in the Department of Human Relations and prior to that as a personnel specialist. In her latest position, she was responsible for planning and implementing comprehensive community and human relations programs for students, staff and community members for more than 180 schools and offices.

Before coming to Montgomery County in the early 1990s, she taught math in secondary schools in New York state and Pennsylvania.

She received her B.S. in Education from the State University of New york at Cortland and an M.S. in Mathematics Education from Queens College in Flushing, NY.

Gong has served as national president of the Organization of Chinese Americans, the first to be elected by the general membership and in 1995 received the Outstanding Service Award from the National Association of Professional Asian American Women.

She is a member of the governor's first Asian Advisory Committee and in 1996 was elected chairperson of the first Governor's Advisory Council on New Americans.

She also serves on numerous local boards, has been an active fundraiser for various projects, and has made numerous appearances as a trainer/guest speaker for organizations throughout the country.

Gong, who resides in Potomac, will assume her new duties June 8.

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