Cliff Williams / TPI Retiring Stanhope Elmore High School principal Ewell Fuller, right, poses for a photograph as his retirement celebration last week.
Cliff Williams / TPI A crowd of friends, family, staff and students gathered Stanhope Elmore High School for Coach Ewell Fuller’s retirement celebration last week.
Cliff Williams / TPI Retiring Stanhope Elmore High School principal Ewell Fuller, right, poses for a photograph as his retirement celebration last week.
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position was advertised twice. It was the second job posting. Fuller wasn’t too confident in getting the job. He didn’t get the Redland Elementary School principal’s job when he applied. He didn’t get a middle school principal position either.“I prayed about it, prayed about it, and prayed about it,” Fuller said. “I talked to my wife, Anna, multiple times about it. I finally decided to put in for it,”Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis was surprised to see Fuller’s name there mainly because Fuller is Wetumpka High School.Fuller showed up to the interview with clothing he was not comfortable in.“I didn't have many ties and that sort of thing, but I scrambled together something,” Fuller said. I get back to the house and take that stuff off. I had told a friend I was going to interview. He met me at the house afterwards with a cowboy coke. So I'm sitting there, sitting by the pool. My phone rings.”It’s someone relaying a message to Fuller that Dennis wants to see him. Fuller finds a pair of khakis two sizes too small, a pink shirt and red tie to wear to meet Dennis.“I walk in there and he's going through all these plans for the atrium at Stanhope Elmore and everything else, flipping through all these things, blah, blah, blah,” Fuller said. “He gets to the end and he says, ‘Well, what do you think?’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ He said, ‘Can you handle it?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ I have no clue what he was talking about.”Dennis made the recommendation to the Elmore County Board of Education to make Fuller the principal of Stanhope Elmore. Fuller said it was God’s plan.“It brought me back focus and purpose,” Fuller said. “I've never been to a place where I felt more
Cliff Williams / TPI A crowd of friends, family, staff and students gathered Stanhope Elmore High School for Coach Ewell Fuller’s retirement celebration last week.
