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Samuel P Cox
Head of School
scox@FaithChristian-School.com
Mr. Cox, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated with the B.S. from Wake Forest University in 1981. While at Wake Forest, he studied Biology and Health & Exercise Science, while running both cross country and track. Mr. Cox served four years as an Army R.O.T.C. scholarship cadet, graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate, and received a Regular Army Commission.
He received the M.S. in Exercise Physiology from the University of South Carolina in 1983. Mr. Cox then served five years of active duty in the regular army from 1983-1988, including training and assignments in San Antonio, TX, Petersburg, VA, Indianapolis, IN, and Ludwigsburg, Germany.
In 1988, he resigned his regular army commission and began serving in the Army Reserves and working from 1988-1991 in Seattle, WA and Corvallis, OR. as an exercise physiologist, and picked up the B.A. in History from Oregon State University. While in Oregon, he also spent two years as a substitute teacher and assistant cross country and track coach at a small public high school and was a teaching assistant in several undergraduate history classes at Oregon State.
Following the west coast adventure, Mr. Cox received the M.A. in History from the College of William & Mary in 1993, where he spent two years as a graduate teaching assistant, in addition to a long-term substitute teaching assignment in American History and cross country and track coach at Walsingham Academy in Williamsburg.
From 1993-1999, Mr. Cox worked at St. Johns Country Day School outside Jacksonville, FL, as history teacher, cross country and track coach, history department chair, and four years as dean of students.
In 1999, Mr. Cox moved to Roanoke, where he served two years as Upper School Head at North Cross School. In addition to duties as Upper School Head, he also taught one history course.
Mr. Cox has continued his formal education with significant graduate hours in history beyond the M.A. at William & Mary, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of New Hampshire, and graduate hours in Education at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Jacksonville University, and the University of North Florida, and graduate coursework in Management, Logistics, and Advanced Military Studies at the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army Medical Department Center and School, as well as theological studies at Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.). He has taught a multitude of history courses with specializations in Modern European, Holocaust studies and Colonial American history.
Mr. Cox became Head of School at Faith Christian School on July 1, 2001. He was married in August, 1998, to Erin Bobel Cox, and they have two daughters, Anna (born 1/28/02) and Avery (born 3/8/04), and a son, Charlie (born 6/8/06). They are active members of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox have served on the Roanoke Valley Young Life Committee, as they did in Orange Park, Florida. Mr. Cox also serves on the Board of Directors and as treasurer for the Society for Classical Learning, a Christian Classical school academic organization.
Mr. Cox retired from the Army Reserves after nearly twenty-one years of service in 2002, which took him to distant lands of Germany (three years), England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, East Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, Panama, Paraguay (and Utah). He has also been afforded the opportunity to study in New York, Washington, DC, Poland, and Israel, among other locales. |
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