[Vision2020] Sutton Served the Area well

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (December 19, 2008) Spokesman Review with special 
thanks to Gerard Connelly.

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Sutton served the area well 

Yesterday's newspaper (Daily News, Dec. 16) carried the obituary of 
Charles "Chuck" Sutton, and I feel compelled to comment on the life of 
this outstanding man. 

He was certainly one of Moscow's giants of his generation. Of the many 
jobs he held in his 36-year career in the Moscow School District, I 
believe his favorite was junior high principal. He loved the kids but was 
no pushover. 

I was a student at Moscow High School in the 1960s when Chuck was a coach. 
He respected all and feared none. (For the rest of his life I called 
him "Coach," which always brought a smile to his face.)

In the 1980s when the school district was in disarray and desperately 
needed strong competent leadership, the school board and the community of 
Moscow knew that Chuck Sutton was the man with the brains, experience and 
strength of character to serve as superintendent of schools, and serve he 
did with uncommon wisdom, humility and success. 

Chuck was a builder of generations of Moscow's youth into men and women 
and for that, the world is a better place. May the angels welcome him into 
Paradise.

Gerard Connelly, Moscow

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Although I may not know of Mr. Sutton, my wife Rodna (who was a student in 
Mr. Sutton's Biology class in 1965) remembers him fondly as one of the 
finest teachers she remembers from her days at Moscow High School.

Rest well, Mr. Sutton.

http://www.tomandrodna.com/photos/Charles_Sutton_Jr.jpg

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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