Wednesday, December 4, 2002
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Wednesday, December 4, 2002 |
Stillions ready for challenge of newest high schoolMcIntosh High School principal Greg Stillions is moving on but not too far. The veteran educator will be coming east to the new Whitewater High School in a few months, having been named that school's first principal by the Fayette County Board of Education. Stillions' new position takes effect Jan. 1. The board made the move during a called session last week. Stillions has been employed with the school system for six years where he was hired as an assistant principal and athletic director at McIntosh High. He was named principal of the school in 1999. Stillions has a total of 20 years of experience covering the entire spectrum of public secondary education. He holds a bachelor's degree in physical education from Purdue University, a master's degree in health and physical education from the State University of West Georgia and a specialist degree in administration from the State University of West Georgia. Stillions says he is excited to have the opportunity and challenge of opening the new school and looks forward to working with the faculty, students and parents to create a premier high school. "I want to create a model school for Fayette County and the state through innovative strategies and new deliveries of instruction. It's going to be a lot of work to get a new school up and running but opportunities like this don't come along often," he said. Stillions knows first-hand what goes into opening a new school. As a head teacher at Mount Zion High in Clayton County he helped to open that facility in 1989. Although construction of the Whitewater High facility will not be finished until the 2004-2005 academic year, the new school is slated to open at the beginning of the 2003-2004 scholastic year at the LaFayette Educational Center. The decision to open the school one year early was approved in August by the Board of Education in order to relieve overcrowding at Fayette County High and to allow rising ninth graders bound for the new school the option of starting their high school years at Whitewater.
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