FORT DIX As the school for the children of military families on the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Fort Dix Elementary presents a unique set of challenges for its principal.
Among the 300 plus students, some have parents who are deployed. Others are starting off in yet another new school. And still others are worried that they will have to move away yet again, just as they have gotten comfortable at Fort Dix.
But Darvis Holley is just the man for this job, according to district administrators and those who know him.
Holley, 36, of Willingboro, will take over as Fort Dix s new principal on July 1, replacing Tamra Garbutt, who is retiring at the end of the school year after 14 years in charge.