After a host of district promotions, Fort Mill High School will need a new principal.
Fort Mill High School will need a new principal thanks to a slew of recently-announced Fort Mill School District administrative changes. The changes include the promotion of Gales Scroggs to a district administrative role.
Scroggs will become the new executive director of middle and secondary education. He will replace Mike Waiksnis who becomes the new assistant superintendent of instruction and accountability.
Scroggs is a Fort Mill High and Winthrop University graduate, and the 2011-12 district Teacher of the Year. He was named principal at the high school in 2018.
The district now will begin the process to replace Scroggs, who begins his new role this summer.
Several district changes come with the retirement of long-time district administrator Marty McGinn. He is assistant superintendent of curriculum and human resources. Changes will include replacing McGinn and spreading duties to better serve a growing district that now is the largest in York County at about 18,000 students.
Waiksnis is a Florida Atlantic University graduate with a doctorate from Gardner Webb University. He has 22 years in education. He joined the Fort Mill district in 2017.
Liza McGarity will become assistant superintendent of human resources. That move splits the duties McGinn had. McGarity is a Winthrop graduate who served as executive director of human resourves for the district. McGarity has been with the district a dozen years.
Grey Young and Joe Romenick have been promoted too.
Young will become assistant superintendent of student services and administration, and Romenick moves to assistant superintendent of facilities and operations. Those duties also were split to better serve the growing district.
Young is a Fort Mill district product with degrees from Winthrop and the University of South Carolina. He has been with the school district 21 years. Romenick has degrees from Baruch College, Adelphi University and Long Island University. He has been with the district 15 years.
Leanne Lordo was promoted to associate superintendent of finance and operations, and chief financial officer. Lordo has 22 years in public school finance, the past 14 of them in Fort Mill as assistant superintendent of finance and operations. Lordo is a South Carolina graduate and certified public accountant.
“These new additions and reorganization to our administrative staff will help to better serve the needs of our students and schools as we continue to grow rapidly,” superintendent Chuck Epps said in a release Friday. “We have an amazing group of educators and support staff in the district and I am proud to work with such a talented group of professionals.
Epps also thanked McGinn for her decades of service to the district.
“Her many years of dedication have touched the lives of countless individuals as they prepared for their futures,” Epps said.
