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Page 2A— Wednesday, May 26, 2021, The True Citizen
From good old-fashioned
discipline to board emeritus
Shayne Sapp, far left, along with board members Lindsai Gentry and John Jackson.
DIANA ROYAL
jdianaroyal@gmail.com
Shayne Sapp remembers sit
ting in his first grade classroom
at Edmund Burke Academy.
The Spartans had just set up
in the Brown House behind the
Presbyterian church following
a series of moves over the years
since its 1960 inception.
But little Sapp wasn’t aware
of the history of his school or
how beloved it would become
to him. On this particular day,
he was more concerned with
drawing monsters on the tablet
paper with a big fat pencil than
he was with his teacher stand
ing in front of the room, guid
ing them to write the alphabet.
“Out of nowhere, she ap
peared and snatched that tab
let up. She took me outside
and gave me some good old-
fashioned discipline,” he says.
“When I got home, I got some
more good old-fashioned dis
cipline.”
“But guess what?” he in
quires, a hint of amusement in
his voice. “Shayne didn’t draw
any more monsters.”
Fast forward to EBA’s cor
porate meeting earlier this
month, and that same young
boy stood before his peers,
slipping on the coveted red
jacket and fighting back tears
as he received the honor of
board emeritus — a recogni
tion reserved for distinguished
service to the school that will
allow Sapp to continue to serve
EBA in an advisory role.
Upon retirement, Sapp re
calls his decades long journey
as a Spartan and how some
thing always seemed to bring
him back.
After his first case of that
good, old-fashioned discipline
(“and trust me it wasn’t the
last,” he laughs), Sapp some
how made it through with 12
years of perfect attendance
and graduated with the class
of 1982. On that last day of
school, when everyone was
gone and he himself could’ve
already left, something drew
him back inside. “I started
walking the halls,” he says.
“And I realized just how much
I was going to miss this place.”
Time moved on as it always
does, and Sapp began working
and attending school, some
times managing to attend the
occasional EBAballgames and
functions.
“Along the way, I matured,”
he says. “I got married, and my
wife, Kay and I had a daughter,
Kayley. When it was time for
her to start school, I got more
involved with EBA again.”
Sapp was first elected to the
board of directors in 2002,
moving up to vice chair his
second year and then chairman
his third year — a position he’s
held until now, when he made
the decision not to seek another
term on the board.
“I soon realized the respon
sibility of being chairman; it
was not something to be taken
lightly,” he says, recalling past
board members like Dr. Lamar
Murray, Dr. Hugh Scott and
Wayne Crockett who set the
precedence. “Dr. Murray had a
sense of humor, but you knew
when he was serious. I remem
ber him telling me, ‘You don’t
back down from anybody. You
do what is right for that school.
You keep our traditions.’ I had
the utmost respect for him
even though I never had the
opportunity to serve with him.
I always took what he said to
heart because I never wanted
to let him down or any other
founding father who sacrificed
to get the school where it is
today.”
"As a new headmaster, I am
very grateful for the support
and guidance Chairman Sapp
has given me,” EBA Head
master Adam Brett says. “His
contributions to EBA will be
felt for many years to come."
When asked what advice he
would offer to the incoming
chairman, Sapp said without
hesitation, “When in doubt,
take the moral high ground.”
“Every meeting I ever had
was opened up in prayer. I
always tried to take every deci
sion to the good Lord because I
knew I couldn’t do it alone,” he
adds. “So many things set Ed
mund Burke apart. It’s a place
where you receive a quality
education and build character
in an atmosphere with people
who love you like God loves
you. I’m thankful to my mother
and father for making the sac
rifices they made to send me to
school there, to the EBA board
of directors and whole EBA
family, past and present, and I
thank the Lord above for good,
old-fashioned discipline.”
Cash needed for Mad
Anthony’s Big Boom
DIANA ROYAL • jdianaroyal@gmail.com
The contributions continue to come in for Mad Anthony’s
Big Boom, and the Downtown Development Authority
(DDA) announced Monday that they’re just a little bit past
the halfway point.
“We have some very generous folks in this community,”
said DDA Director Don Lively, who added how excited
he is to check the mail each day. “These businesses and
individuals are what make it happen, and I am looking
forward to the big event.”
The DDA, who sponsors the local fireworks show, is
now $4,167 away from its $10,000 goal after a week that
brought in $1,450 in donations. The local fireworks show,
which is planned for July 3 at Jonathan Broxton Park, is
fully funded by these donations.
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