'Teacher Ed' to lead Friends School in Virginia Beach

Posted to: Education News Virginia Beach

By Lauren Roth
The Virginian-Pilot
© January 5, 2009

VIRGINIA BEACH

The Virginia Beach Friends School has chosen a new leader.

Edward Hollinger, who heads the upper division at the New Garden Friends School in Greensboro, N.C., has been chosen to lead the preK-12 Quaker school as it embarks on a campaign to rebuild at a new, eco-friendly site.

As vice chair of the redevelopment authority in Lancaster County, Pa., Hollinger helped manage the construction of a $23.4 million stadium for the Lancaster Barnstormers baseball team in 2004.

Hollinger, who will be known to the school community as Teacher Ed, has also been a college advisor, a public school assistant principal and a teacher and athletic director at a Mennonite school in Pennsylvania.

His experience with teaching, administration, capital campaigns, land acquisition, green building and Quaker education make him a good fit for the Beach school, according to a letter sent to the school community by the search committee.

Hollinger will visit the school Friday and start as Head of School on July 1.

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