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Line 18: − Bishop graduated in 1953 from Elizabethtown High School in Elizabethtown in Hardin County west of Campbellsville. In 1955, he obtained his two-year degree from the then Campbellsville Junior College; two years later, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Baptist-affiliated Union University in Jackson, [[Tennessee]]. In 1965, he received the [[Master of Arts]] from Eastern Kentucky University, a public institution in Richmond. He was the CU director of athletics from 1968 until his retirement in 1997. He was also a professor in the physical education department; in 1998, the CU board granted Bishop faculty emeritus status.<ref name=bio/> − Bishop and his wife, the former June Holman (born 1938), have two daughters and sons-in-law, all graduates of Campbellsville University. The former Robyn Bishop (born 1963) is married to Randy Lynn Lawless (born 1962); her sister, Susan (born 1967), is the wife of Michael E. "Sarge" Pollock (born 1966), a former director of alumni relations at CU.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://campbellsvilletigers.com/news/2017/12/27/general-don-bishop-long-time-athletics-director-passes-away-at-age-of-82.aspx|title=Don Bishop, long-time Athletics Director, passes away at age of 82|publisher=Campbellsvilletigers.com|accessdate=December 29, 2017}}</ref>+ − + − ==Career==+ + + + + + + + + + + − In his nearly three-decade career at CU, Bishop started and reinstated several athletic programs. He launched men's and women's programs for [[soccer]], [[swimming]] and diving, and he oversaw the return of [[football]] to the campus in 1988, after an absence of fifty years. He also brought back cross country competition. He coached award-winning men's [[golf]] teams from 1969 to 1978. He also coached men's and women's tennis, track and field, cross country and was the freshman men's [[basketball]] coach. He worked to establish the CU Athletics Boosters and Big Maroon clubs and spearheaded the efforts to establish the Mid-South Conference in 1996. He led CU into the National Christian College Athletic Association. In 1986, the Bishops established an endowed fund to provide scholarships for students in physical education or CU athletic programs. In 2000, CU honored Bishop as the only inductee that year to the Athletic Hall of Fame.<ref name=bio/>+ − − Current CU President Michael V. Carter described Bishop as "the epitome of ... a true Christian servant leader. He not only made impacts in our athletics department but in our academic programs and inside the community."<ref name=bio/> [[W. R. Davenport]], the Campbellsville College president from 1969 to 1988, described Bishop as "a strong and significant leader for both our athletic and academic program with an emphasis in physical education. ... The present success for our programs were built on the foundation that he laid so many years ago. He will be sorely missed, not only by his loving family, but by all of us who had the privilege of working with him through the years."<ref name=bio/> Another former CU president, Kenneth W. Winters, a former member of the Kentucky State Senate, said that Bishop "was a gentleman. He was a kind man who loved the students at Campbellsville and who loved the Lord. He was truly a one-of-a-kind man who worked hard to give Campbellsville University a strong athletic base."<ref name=bio/> − + + + + + − Bishop died at the age of eighty-two in Jewish Hospital in [[Louisville]], Kentucky. He is interred at Campbellsville Memorial Gardens.<ref name=bio/> − − + − [[Category:Educators]] − +
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==Background==
==Background==
{{Infobox person
|name=Sarah Jane Stafford Sims<br>
(English professor<br>Campbellsville University<br>Kentucky)
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|birth_date=1967
|birth_place=Resides in Yosemite near Liberty, Casey County, [[Kentucky]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|religion=Christian Church
|spouse=Ronald Dale Sims (married 2011)
}}
'''Sarah Jane Stafford Sims''' (born 1967) is the chair of the Division of Humanities and an [[English]] [[professor]] at the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Campbellsville University in Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]].
Sims is the younger of two daughters of Kenneth Myrl Stafford (1920-1999) and the former Effie Hatter (1921-2007), who resided in Yosemite in Casey County in central Kentucky. The parents are interred at Middleburg Cemetery in Casey County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21166640|title=Kennethy Myrl Stafford|publisher=old.findagrave.com|accessdate=December 22, 2017}}</ref>
[[Frank Cheatham]], a retired CU administrator, noted that Bishop "wore many hats. ... He was always interested in the success of student-athletes, and he spent many hours working with students to help them succeed. Most importantly, Don always lived his life showing his love for the Lord."<ref name=bio/> CU athletics director James A. "Jim" Hardy (born 1962) called Bishop "the administrative foundation" on which the current athletics programs are built: "Don taught me to always remember to use the platform of sports to show people [[Jesus]]. He had a huge impact on many in this community as he taught ... thousands, of young people to swim and also served in many capacities at church."<ref name=bio/>
Sarah Sims studied at Campbellsville College, as the institution was formerly known. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1989. In 1990, she received a [[Master of Arts]] from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. She joined the Campbellsville faculty in 1993; in 2003, she completed her [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Kentucky]] at Lexington. In 2013, she received the annual CU Challenger Award; in 2017, she received the "Distinguished Faculty Award," a prize that she said she did not deserve.<ref name=campbellsvillian>Josh Christian, "Dr. Sarah Stafford Sims receives the Distinguished Faculty Award from Campbellsville University," ''Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University,'' Vol. 15 (2017), 12.</ref>
Donna Hedgepath, the CU provost and vice president for academic affairs, said that Sims "has a servant's heart in every way - toward students, colleagues, family, and friends. ... She spends the majority of her office hours with students, helping then with their writing or just offering support."<ref name=campbellsvillian/>
In 2011, she wed Ronald Dale Sims, a son of the late Willard and Violet Sims, at the Mount Olive First Christian Church in Yosemite, where the couple resides.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caseynews.net/content/engagement-stafford-sims|title=Engagement: Stafford-Sims|publisher=Caseynews.net|date=May 17, 2011|accessdate=December 22, 2017}}</ref>
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