NAPT Foundation - Committed to School Bus Transportation Safety

Committed to the safe transportation of our nation's children...

At the helm of the NAPT Foundation are a number of experts who, combined, offer well over 100 years of experience in the pupil transportation field. These industry-recognized leaders have helped to advance safety issues on the state and national level for many years, and are committed to raising pupil transportation safety standards.

	Don M. Carnahan Renton, Washington Vice President of Business Development for Zonar Systems Inc. America's leading provider of fleet telematics for the pupil transportation industry. Don has 40 years' experience in school transportation. He served 9 years as a teacher and administrator in Renton School District, and spent 22 years in the Department of Education in the State of Washington. Don was president of the National Association for Pupil Transportation, the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation, the Washington Traffic Safety Education Association, served on the Board of Directors of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association and the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute. In 2006 Don was inducted into the NAPT Hall of Fame.
	Ed Donn Calhoun, Georgia With nearly 40 years experience in the education field, Ed served as the director of transportation for districts in Maryland and Georgia. He has been elected president of the National Association of Pupil Transportation twice in his career, and has also been president of the Georgia and Maryland State organizations. A consultant on pupil transportation issues to school board associations, Ed was inducted into the NAPT Hall of Fame in 2001.
	Robert Pape Long Island, New York With over 25 years experience in the industry, Robert is the past president of the National Association for Pupil Transportation. Working for the past 19 years as director of transportation for the Lawrence Public Schools, he has also served as a board member of the New York State Association for Pupil Transportation as well as first president of the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute. He has served as a delegate on the National School Bus Standards Conference in 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000, and is consulted regularly on pupil transportation safety issues across the United States.
	Don Paull Georgetown, Texas After serving for 10 years as President and CEO of Capital Bus Sales, a Texas school bus dealer, Don sold the business in June, 2008. He previously was employed as director of transportation for several Texas school districts over a period of 22 years. Don also has served as president of both the National Association of Pupil Transportation and the Texas Association of Pupil Transportation. He was a delegate to the 1985 and 1990 National School Bus Standards Conferences and served on several writing committees for those conferences.
	Ken Hedgecock High Point, North Carolina Ken Hedgecock is the Vice-President of Sales, Marketing and Service for Thomas Built Buses, Inc. of High Point, North Carolina. Prior to assuming this position, Ken served as Director of North American Sales, Corporate Sales Training Manager, and Regional Sales Manager. He also has served as a Spanish teacher, basketball coach and assistant principal previous to his employment with Thomas. He resides in Oak Ridge, N.C. with his wife Suzanne and their two children, Ethan and Megan.
	Don Tudor Columbia, South Carolina Donald Tudor is the director of transportation for the South Carolina Department of Education. Don's earliest involvement in the transportation industry began in the early 1970s, when he helped to establish a regional transit authority in South Carolina. During the 1990s, Don assisted in a campaign to prohibit the use of 15-passenger vans for school transportation. Don served on the NAPT Board of Directors for six years as the southeast, Region 2 Director and he was the secretary and treasurer for four years. He is a longtime member of the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services where he has served as regional director and treasurer. He also served as a board member of the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute. Since 1991, he has contributed time to the National Congress on School Transportation, and the Southeastern States Pupil Transportation Conference, where he has served as president.
	J. Steven Kalmes CDPT Anchorage, Alaska Steve has been Director of Transportation for the Anchorage School District for the past 23 years. He has an additional 10 years of experience in Kansas and Missouri. Steve is the past President of the National Association for Pupil Transportation and The Missouri Association of Pupil Transportation and served as Chairman of the National BUS Council. He was Transportation Chairman for the 1996 Arctic Winter Games and Transportation Commissioner for the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games and serves as the Chairman of the NAPT Training Committee which oversees the NAPT Professional Development Series.

Each year, approximately 440,000 school buses travel over 4.3 billion miles, serving over 24 million school-aged children. With over 10 billion student trips per year, school buses are recognized as the safest mode of transportation in the world.