Through a Young Boy's Eyes

<p><span style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>James Franklin Simpson was born at home in Cawood Kentucky in 1954. The son of a public school teacher and stay-at-home mom he spent his formative years growing up in the deeply-forested Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky. As a young boy James experienced poverty underfunded schools geographical isolation cultural segregation and loss all of which served as the impetus for his desire to become well-educated; he earned a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. James was chosen as Kentucky's School Superintendent of the Year in 1995 by the American Association of School Administrators and rounded out his career serving as a graduate-level professor at Georgetown College for almost a decade. </span></p>