Complex sentence: The school board appointed Assistant Principal Boothe to serve in his stead, and this temporary appointment was made permanent on April 1,1977, and Darvin Boothe became Lake Brantley's third principal, a job he was to hold for the next 29 years.
Split into simpler sentences: The school board appointed Assistant Principal Boothe to serve in his stead, and this temporary appointment was made permanent on April 1,1977. Alvin Darvin Boothe became Lake Brantley's third principal, a job he was to hold for the next 29 years.