A Magnificent Selection
Soon to be the first female president of NSTA, Magda Dimmendaal is armed and ready to be a leading advocate for private school bus contracting … and the industry as a whole
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By Ryan Gray It will be newsworthy enough when Donnie Fowler
passes the NSTA presidential gavel to Magda Dim- mendaal next month in Baltimore at the annual NSTA Convention. For only the second time in indus- try history will a woman assume the top leadership position at one of the national associations. But being the first female to lead NSTA is irrelevant,
according to Dimmendaal, who is bringing with her more than 37 years of experience as a student trans- porter, starting with her very first lesson behind the wheel of a school bus in 1973, four years prior to
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NHTSA creating the first-ever Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for the yellow vehicles. Soon after she caught the “yellow fever” that so many in the industry know all too well. She is as tried and true as they come. “When I started driving we had five-speed trans-
mission, I didn’t have power steering, we did not have two-way radios,” she recalled. “I remember driving a bus that had fiberglass seats, so we had no padded seats, no padded rails, we had no stop arms, no cross- ing gates, no roof hatches. When I first started you got behind the wheel and you kind of ran your own
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