As head of the Physical Education Department in the University of Kentucky, Don Cash Seaton has expanded the curriculum and staff until it ranks with the best in the South. He has given leadership and guidance to the State Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and has served as chairman for some twenty sections of the Southern and American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
Dr. Don Seaton is married to the former Louise Shoop, whose father was once a pastor of the El Paso Methodist Church. She was a teacher in the El Paso Township High School prior to her marriage.
Cecil A. Sharpe
Born in Panola, Illinois on May 11, 1901, Cecil Sharpe, son of John W. and Margaret Sharpe, became an educator and, by quirk of fate, received recognition for an act of heroism. He attended grade school in Panola and graduated from El Paso Township High School in 1919, receiving his B. A. degree at Illinois State Normal University and his M. A. at the University of Illinois.
Cecil started a career of thirty-four years in the teaching profession at the Cram school north of Secor, teaching five years in Woodford County rural schools, and continued successively at Roanoke, Rutland, Bureau, and Spring Valley, the last nine years as principal of Hall Township High School there.
Mr. Sharpe's first wife, Ocie M. Leach of Minonk, passed away in 1952 leaving two sons. In 1953 the widower remarried, his second wife being the former Mrs. Floyd G. Wood, a supervisor of teachers in the Los Angeles Elementary School System.
When Cecil was superintendent of the public schools in Bureau on January 19, 1927, he performed an act of heroism which won him a bronze medal and $1,000 from the Carnegie Hero Fund, by rescuing a fourteen months old boy from certain death. The documented story is as follows:
This child and his three year old brother were alone in their home when the building caught fire. The older child ran outside as the dense smoke poured from the building.
Several persons tried to enter the building to rescue the baby but were driven back by the dense smoke. Mr. Sharpe was warned not to try to enter the building, but with a fine courage and cool judgment, crawled in on his hands and knees. He was almost overcome by smoke by the time he reached the baby, but managed to carry it from the burning building. The child suffered serious burns but recovered it. Mr. Sharpe was not seriously burned, but suffered from the severe nervous strain.
The Most Reverend Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
El Pasoans are justly proud of all its native sons who have gone out into the world to carve careers for themselves and to write their names on the scroll of fame, but we are especially proud of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. To those with courage and perseverance who love
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