Colonial Hills Christian School was founded in 1959, under the leadership of Dr. Paul Van Gorder. Mrs. Lula Willis served as the first principal. Mr. Robert M. Miller was a principal in 1966, and under his leadership the school grew to an enrollment of 436 in 1972, with grades K5-9. Under Dr. Cummins' leadership, the school built a new educational building in 1973, and the school expanded to a full high school with an enrollment of over 600 students the next year. Colonial Hills Christian School relocated to Lithia Springs, Georgia in 1995, and now has an enrollment of 420 in grades K4-12. Dr. Westley Smith was called as administrator in 1998, and the school continues to grow under his leadership.
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“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”
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“And I would love you all the Day,
Every Night would kiss and play,
If with me you’d fondly stray
Over the Hills and far away.”
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