Hickory Valley Christian School on Shallowford Road looks to the future through the clarifying lens of its 30-year history, to be celebrated Sept. 2.
“God has been faithful in prospering this school,” said board member J. Pat Williams of Missionary Ridge.
Back then, school officials didn’t have a teacher for those first nine students until the Wednesday before school was to start, Sept. 2, 1980 – others had backed out that August. Zelma Landsford, former headmaster at St. Nicholas School, served as the first HVCS superintendent.
Hickory Valley Christian School board member J. Pat Williams of Missionary Ridge, co-founder Lewis Alligood of Tyner and headmaster Jack Exum of Collegedale, from left, will celebrate the school’s 30th anniversary Sept. 2.The school, which had 11 students by the end of the first week and 17 students by the end of the year, today boasts 129 students and 20 teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Under leadership of new headmaster Jack Exum of Collegedale, hired in June, school officials plan to be in position to enact a waiting list three years from now.