Dr. David Tilley of Mount Paran Christian School in Marietta will address the winter graduates at the university’s commencement exercises this Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the Conn Center.
Dr. Tilley was a popular and effective cabinet administrator at Lee University from 1988 to 2002, serving for most of that time as the vice president for Student Life.
A graduate of East Ridge High School, Dr. Tilley attended Lee College before receiving his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1971. Upon graduation, he accepted positions with both Cobb County Board of Education as a teacher and at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta as their minister of youth.
He received his master’s degree in educational administration from Georgia State University in 1975. He served in a series of administrative positions in Atlanta area secondary schools.
In 1983, he started Straight Inc., a drug rehabilitation program for adolescents in Marietta. He left there to become headmaster at Mount Paran Christian School, where he started the high school and moved the campus to East Cobb County.
Dr. Tilley left MPCS in 1988 and became a vice president at Lee, and later at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y. He returned to Atlanta to become headmaster at Mount Paran Christian School in the summer of 2004.
He is married to Angie, and they have three adult children. In the last year, their family has grown to include two granddaughters.
Graduation exercises will begin this weekend with a Commissioning Service on Friday evening, where guests and graduates will hear from several class representatives. Commemorative bibles will be given to the graduates at this event. Saturday morning will be the Commencement Ceremony, where Tilley will deliver the address and diplomas will be awarded.
For more information on Lee’s graduation exercises, contact Angeline McMullin at 614-8117.