McIntosh High

School principal Greg Stillions was named Tuesday morning to the same

post at the new Whitewater High School, which is slated to open next fall.

The Board of

Education approved the appointment, which was the recommendation of Superintendent

John DeCotis, at a special called meeting. Stillions was picked from a

list of three final candidates.

The next move

for the school board will be to begin the interview process for Stillions'

replacement at McIntosh, according to school system spokesperson Melinda

Berry-Dreisbach.

An educator

for 20 years, Stillions has worked in Fayette County since the fall of

1996, when he was named assistant principal and athletic director at McIntosh.

Prior to that, he spent seven years at Mount Zion High School in Clayton

County, beginning as a teacher and coach at the school's inception in

1989.

The permanent

Whitewater High School campus is now under construction off Ga. Highway

85 south of Fayetteville, but the school will open next fall in the LaFayette

Educational Center to allow rising freshmen to begin there rather than

spend a single year at another school. Whitewater will be the county's

fifth public high school.