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{{Infobox person
| name=Forest Franklin Shely
(Kentucky Physician and Campbellsville University Trustee)
| birth=June 20, 1924
| birth_place=Lawrenceburg<br>Anderson County<br>[[Kentucky]], USA
| death_date=August 30, 2010 (aged 86)
| death_place =Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky
| resting_place =Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville
| spouse=Roberta Hale Shely (married 1947–2006, her death)<br>
'''Children''': <br>
Bill Shely<br>
Jacque S. Blackwelder<br>
Deborah S. Edwards<br>
Karen S. McMahan<br>
Carla S. Corbin<br>
Eight grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Forest Wyatt and Blance Brown Shely
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Cmpbellsville University<br>
Georgetown College (Kentucky)<br>
Washington and Jefferson College<br>
[[Yale University]]<br>
[[University of Louisville]] Health Sciences Center
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-CAMPBELLSVILLE-KY.html|title=Campbellsville, KY: Political Contributions by Individuals|publisher=city-data.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
}}
'''Forest Franklin Shely''' (June 20, 1924 – August 30, 2010) was a [[physician]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County [[Kentucky]], who served for fifty-six years as a trustee of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Campbellsville University.
==Background==
Shely (pronounced SHE LEE) was the older of two sons born to Forest Wyatt Shely (1901–1976), a graduate of Berea College, a schoolteacher and a Baptist layman, and the former Blanche Brown in Lawrenceburg in Anderson County near the capital city of [[Frankfort]], Kentucky. Wyatt Shely, as he was known, wrote a column for ''The Anderson News'' as well as several church histories. The younger Shely son, Robert Edward Shely, Forest Shely's brother, was born in 1930 and died in 1955, leaving behind a young widow and a son, Brent Shely, later Brent Owen of Williamsburg , [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/> Forest Shely graduated in 1941 from Western High School in Sinai, also in Anderson County, where his father was on the faculty.<ref name=andco>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSTjzjDkpRUC&pg=PA146 |title=Anderson County, Kentucky|location=[[Paducah, Kentucky|Paducah]] Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page= 146 | ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false
|author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN = 978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/>
==Medical career==
<blockquote>'''Shely was a giant figure in Taylor County and a highly respected physician with wide influence in health care in the Lake Cumberland Area Development District.'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=39016|title=Obituary: Dr. Forest F. Shely, 86, Taylor Co., KY|publisher= ''Columbia Magazine''|location=Columbia, Kentucky|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref></blockquote>
In 1950, Shely established his initial practice in Louisa in Lawrence County in far eastern Kentucky. In 1963, he returned to Campbellsville, where he had begun college twelve years earlier, to open his medical practice, which he maintained there until his retirement in 1997.<ref name=assawards>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/CVSummer03.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=Campbellsville University presents first Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|publisher=Campbellsville University|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
Shely was the medical director of several area nursing homes and the first administrator of Taylor County Hospital. He served as chairman of both the Taylor County and Lake Cumberland district boards of health. He was a member of the Taylor County Mental Health Board, Taylor County Public Library Board, and the Campbellsville-Taylor County Rescue Advisory Board.<ref name=obit/>
==Civic leadership==
Shely was chairman of the board of Citizens Bank and Trust Company in Campbellsville. He was a member and past president of Campbellsville Rotary International. He was also a half-century member of [[Gideons International]].<ref name=obit/> In 2003, Shely was named one of the first two recipients of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award]] given for community service by Campbellsville University.<ref name=assawards/>
Shely served from 1954 until his death on the Campbellsville University board, including the longest period as chairman of any other member of the body. [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph Davenport]], the president of the previously named Campbellsville College from 1969 to 1988, said that Dr. Shely's "knowledge of our operations, insights, wisdom, and guidance were invaluable – nothing short of [[God]]'s gifts to me through those many years. Only God knows fully the value and eternal effects of his contributions to, and influence on, our university."<ref name=camp>Joan C. McKinney, "Campbellsville University Board of Trustee member since 1954, Dr. Forest F. Shely dies," ''The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University,'' Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 12.</ref>
Davenport's successor as president, Kenneth W. Winters, a former member of the Kentucky State Senate, recalls Shely as "a true mentor to me. He became our family physician and a dear friend. Seldom do you find a person so dedicated to an institution as Dr. Shely was to Campbellsville University.<ref name=camp/> Current CU president Michael V. Carter similarly noted that Shely provided "skilled medical care to thousands of people in this community and region, and his numerous contributions have been inestimable in value and impact."<ref name=camp/>
==Family and death==
On April 6, 1947, Shely married the former Roberta "Bobbie" Hale (September 30, 1922 – February 23, 2006), a native of Springfield, Kentucky, and a 1942 graduate of Campbellsville University.<ref name=andco/> In 1988, Shely and his wife received Distinguished Service awards from CU.<ref name=camp/> The Shelys had a son, Bill Shely and wife, Cathy, of Morehead, Kentucky, and four daughters, Jacque Blackwelder and husband, Denis of Old Hickory, [[Tennessee]], Deborah S. Edwards of Lexington, and, from Campbellsville, Karen S. McMahan and Carla S. Corbin and husband, Dale Corbin. There were also seven living grandchildren and one deceased.<ref name=obit/>
Shely died in Campbellsville of cardiovascular disease at the age of eighty-six. Services were held in his home church, Campbellsville Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and Sunday school teacher for many years. Burial was at Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
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{{Infobox person
| name=Forest Franklin Shely
(Kentucky Physician and Campbellsville University Trustee)
| birth=June 20, 1924
| birth_place=Lawrenceburg<br>Anderson County<br>[[Kentucky]], USA
| death_date=August 30, 2010 (aged 86)
| death_place =Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky
| resting_place =Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville
| spouse=Roberta Hale Shely (married 1947–2006, her death)<br>
'''Children''': <br>
Bill Shely<br>
Jacque S. Blackwelder<br>
Deborah S. Edwards<br>
Karen S. McMahan<br>
Carla S. Corbin<br>
Eight grandchildren<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Forest Wyatt and Blance Brown Shely
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Cmpbellsville University<br>
Georgetown College (Kentucky)<br>
Washington and Jefferson College<br>
[[Yale University]]<br>
[[University of Louisville]] Health Sciences Center
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-CAMPBELLSVILLE-KY.html|title=Campbellsville, KY: Political Contributions by Individuals|publisher=city-data.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
}}
'''Forest Franklin Shely''' (June 20, 1924 – August 30, 2010) was a [[physician]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County [[Kentucky]], who served for fifty-six years as a trustee of the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Campbellsville University.
==Background==
Shely (pronounced SHE LEE) was the older of two sons born to Forest Wyatt Shely (1901–1976), a graduate of Berea College, a schoolteacher and a Baptist layman, and the former Blanche Brown in Lawrenceburg in Anderson County near the capital city of [[Frankfort]], Kentucky. Wyatt Shely, as he was known, wrote a column for ''The Anderson News'' as well as several church histories. The younger Shely son, Robert Edward Shely, Forest Shely's brother, was born in 1930 and died in 1955, leaving behind a young widow and a son, Brent Shely, later Brent Owen of Williamsburg , [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/> Forest Shely graduated in 1941 from Western High School in Sinai, also in Anderson County, where his father was on the faculty.<ref name=andco>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSTjzjDkpRUC&pg=PA146 |title=Anderson County, Kentucky|location=[[Paducah, Kentucky|Paducah]] Kentucky|publisher=Turner Publishing Co.|year=1991|page= 146 | ISBN= 1-56311-007-5|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false
|author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN = 978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/>
==Medical career==
<blockquote>'''Shely was a giant figure in Taylor County and a highly respected physician with wide influence in health care in the Lake Cumberland Area Development District.'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=39016|title=Obituary: Dr. Forest F. Shely, 86, Taylor Co., KY|publisher= ''Columbia Magazine''|location=Columbia, Kentucky|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref></blockquote>
In 1950, Shely established his initial practice in Louisa in Lawrence County in far eastern Kentucky. In 1963, he returned to Campbellsville, where he had begun college twelve years earlier, to open his medical practice, which he maintained there until his retirement in 1997.<ref name=assawards>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.edu/Websites/cu/Files/Content/740887/CVSummer03.pdf|author=Joan C. McKinney|title=Campbellsville University presents first Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|publisher=Campbellsville University|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>
Shely was the medical director of several area nursing homes and the first administrator of Taylor County Hospital. He served as chairman of both the Taylor County and Lake Cumberland district boards of health. He was a member of the Taylor County Mental Health Board, Taylor County Public Library Board, and the Campbellsville-Taylor County Rescue Advisory Board.<ref name=obit/>
==Civic leadership==
Shely was chairman of the board of Citizens Bank and Trust Company in Campbellsville. He was a member and past president of Campbellsville Rotary International. He was also a half-century member of [[Gideons International]].<ref name=obit/> In 2003, Shely was named one of the first two recipients of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award]] given for community service by Campbellsville University.<ref name=assawards/>
Shely served from 1954 until his death on the Campbellsville University board, including the longest period as chairman of any other member of the body. [[W. R. Davenport|William Randolph Davenport]], the president of the previously named Campbellsville College from 1969 to 1988, said that Dr. Shely's "knowledge of our operations, insights, wisdom, and guidance were invaluable – nothing short of [[God]]'s gifts to me through those many years. Only God knows fully the value and eternal effects of his contributions to, and influence on, our university."<ref name=camp>Joan C. McKinney, "Campbellsville University Board of Trustee member since 1954, Dr. Forest F. Shely dies," ''The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University,'' Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 12.</ref>
Davenport's successor as president, Kenneth W. Winters, a former member of the Kentucky State Senate, recalls Shely as "a true mentor to me. He became our family physician and a dear friend. Seldom do you find a person so dedicated to an institution as Dr. Shely was to Campbellsville University.<ref name=camp/> Current CU president Michael V. Carter similarly noted that Shely provided "skilled medical care to thousands of people in this community and region, and his numerous contributions have been inestimable in value and impact."<ref name=camp/>
==Family and death==
On April 6, 1947, Shely married the former Roberta "Bobbie" Hale (September 30, 1922 – February 23, 2006), a native of Springfield, Kentucky, and a 1942 graduate of Campbellsville University.<ref name=andco/> In 1988, Shely and his wife received Distinguished Service awards from CU.<ref name=camp/> The Shelys had a son, Bill Shely and wife, Cathy, of Morehead, Kentucky, and four daughters, Jacque Blackwelder and husband, Denis of Old Hickory, [[Tennessee]], Deborah S. Edwards of Lexington, and, from Campbellsville, Karen S. McMahan and Carla S. Corbin and husband, Dale Corbin. There were also seven living grandchildren and one deceased.<ref name=obit/>
Shely died in Campbellsville of cardiovascular disease at the age of eighty-six. Services were held in his home church, Campbellsville Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and Sunday school teacher for many years. Burial was at Brookside Cemetery in Campbellsville.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shely, Forest}}
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]