Rock Creek Unincorporated - Cantley, David Dee
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When David Cantley asked me to write about him for the autobiography on which he was working, it took me about three seconds to say, "Yes." I consider him to be one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met and felt honored to be able to share my thoughts with others. In The History of Lake Worth High School, I wrote this about his two decades as principal, "Without his guidance, the school might very well have been shut down." I believed that strongly then, and I still believe it as strongly today. In May of 1980, Cantley became Lake Worth High's fifth principal during the 1979-80…mehr

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When David Cantley asked me to write about him for the autobiography on which he was working, it took me about three seconds to say, "Yes." I consider him to be one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met and felt honored to be able to share my thoughts with others. In The History of Lake Worth High School, I wrote this about his two decades as principal, "Without his guidance, the school might very well have been shut down." I believed that strongly then, and I still believe it as strongly today. In May of 1980, Cantley became Lake Worth High's fifth principal during the 1979-80 school year. He took charge of a school that had deteriorated tremendously in the quarter-century since my class had graduated. The campus was overcrowded, and plagued with disorder. White students were fleeing, and academics were lagging. The first thing he did was restore discipline. After that, he instituted magnet programs to arrest the white flight. Finally, he spearheaded efforts to get the campus rebuilt and enlarged. By the time he retired in 1999, the school was a model for how things should be done in secondary education. Along the way, he worked to help the less fortunate achieve an education. He had known hard times as a youngster, and he never forgot his roots. He was instrumental in founding the flea market held beneath I-95 that provided scholarships, school supplies and other aid to those in need. The year he retired, he was a key figure in organizing the Lake Worth High School Alumni Foundation and Lake Worth Dollars for Scholars. The latter has distributed over $1 million in scholarships as of 2017. I can't say anything about David Cantley before his Lake Worth High years, because I didn't know him then. But this book fills in the gaps and gives me a better feel about how he became the outstanding man he is. William E. "Bill" McGoun, Ph.D.
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David Cantley, we call him by his middle name Dee, and I were born in Western Raleigh County, he on a farm at Rock Creek on Coal River and I at Fairdale. We spent two school years, 1958-1960 at Beckley College but, ironically, never met. It wasn't until the fall of 1960 that we met and began developing our friendship when we enrolled at Morris Harvey College, now the University of Charleston. We soon learned that we had a lot in common; both working to bootstrap ourselves out of poverty. This led us to lean on each other, pledging to agree do whatever it took to get our degrees. Dee was a lifeline for me in the summer of 1962. Four of our closely knit group, Dee, Gerald Dickens, Raymond Domingues, and I graduated Beckley College in 1960. Some of our credits did not transfer to Morris Harvey College, so we had to go to summer school to earn the credits needed for graduation. With two weeks left in the term, I ran out of money and had no way to earn money for meals. Dee went to my professor, who taught my class and explained my situation, and asked if he would allow me to complete my work via the U.S. mail. To my surprise, the professor agreed; I went home and sent my work in by mail and was able to graduate with my friends.Dee taught Social Studies for three years at his alma mater, Marsh Fork High School. I taught English there for one year and Dee and I became very unpopular with the principal by questioning where the gate receipts from athletic events were going. Dee and his wife Kay moved to Palm Beach County, Florida in the fall of 1965, after three years at Marsh Fork. He taught physical education to special needs students in West Palm Beach for seven years and was on the committee that met with Eunice Kennedy Shriver in Washington to organize Special Olympics. He became the fifth principal of Lake Worth High School during the 1979-80 school year. The school was in danger of being taken over by the state, but Dee rallied the faculty, restored discipline, and revised the curriculum, returning the school to respectability. He also established a scholarship program that has awarded $1.5 million dollars in scholarships since 1999 to students with financial needs. Was he remembering his own background? Dee retired in 1999; however, he was called four times to assist struggling schools. He and Kay are enjoying retirement at their home in Atlantis, Florida, and have two daughters, five grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. I highly recommend his autobiography Rock Creek Unincorporated. -Jesse L. Richardson, Jr. You can contact Dave at David.Cantley38@gmail.com.