About the Authors ...
After 20 years as teacher of math, science, and English, Donald Cahill served in public schools as computer system manager, curriculum director, business administrator, and superintendent of schools. He graduated from St. John’s University, earned his master’s degree from the City College of New York, and completed his doctoral studies at New York University. A computer buff since the early 1960’s with an ongoing interest in effective use of professional resources, beginning in 1981 he pioneered the development and marketing of IEP software.
Maureen Cahill came to the special education field from a career in theatre arts and management.
Before joining Don in 1987 as full-time director of marketing at IEP Publishing, she was the administrator of the Performing Arts Center of Brookdale College in New Jersey. She founded and is active in the Fluvanna Arts Council and administers the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center here in the heart of Virginia. She has written and directed plays for students and for adults in schools and community theatres.The Cahills enjoy working as a team, traveling across the USA and Canada, lecturing, installing their IEP software, and training teachers and administrators. They raised their ten children, eight daughters and two sons, on Long Island, moving to upstate New York, and then on the New Jersey coast. Now grown and all married to wonderful spouses, the families with our twenty-one grandchildren live all across the country in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, and California, and one in London, England.
The "gold" theme in the Goal Mine and their IEP software programs, Goal Digger and Goal Rush, was inspired by their current location in central Virginia, where gold was first mined in the American colonies. An old gold mine lies within a quarter-mile of their office on ... where else? ... Gold Mine Road!