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The founding caput of an Atlanta backstage schoolhouse has died astatine property 79.
Paul Bianchi led Paideia School from 1971 to 2023. His household said helium died peacefully astatine location today.
He is survived by his woman of 57 years, Barbara Dunbar, their 3 daughters, and 8 grandchildren.
Bianchi was chosen arsenic the caput of Paideia School erstwhile helium was conscionable 25 years old.
According to the school, Bianchi said astir being offered the job, “Let the grounds bespeak that I was selected from a database connected which determination were nary different candidates to caput up a schoolhouse that had nary buildings, nary faculty, nary students, and nary money.”
Funeral arrangements person not yet been announced.
In lieu of flowers, his household requests donations beryllium made to the Paideia School Financial Aid Program.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff issued the pursuing statement:
“Alisha and I explicit our heavy sadness upon the decease of Paul Bianchi, laminitis of The Paideia School successful Atlanta, Georgia. We observe and grant Paul’s beingness and his bequest arsenic 1 of the astir impactful, visionary, and beloved acquisition leaders successful Georgia history.
“Paul’s emotion of children, education, and assemblage and his decades of dedicated enactment shaped thousands of lives for the amended and contributed successful profound ways to communities successful Georgia and to the world.
“Alisha and I cognize firsthand the brilliance, wit, wisdom, and compassion that made Paul truthful special, and are grateful for each helium did to enactment america and truthful galore others.
“We articulation the Atlanta assemblage successful expressing our emotion and enactment for Paul’s wife, Barbara Dunbar; their daughters Melissa, Sarah, and Emily; their grandchildren and the full Bianchi family.
“Paul: Godspeed and convey you.”
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