Curtis Williams set best example

To the editor:

Thank you for the recent article featuring Curtis Williams. There is no one who deserves recognition more than he does. We saw Curtis last fall at a football game in St. Charles, Mo., and reminisced about the years we knew him in Cape Girardeau. A smile on his face and his noticeable delight in discussing his years at Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University made it perfectly clear that he hasn't changed a bit.

Curtis is a quiet fighter. No challenge seemed to big for him. He had the unique ability to take the racial affronts aimed at him as the first black athlete at Southeast and turn them into motivation to succeed.

Since we are a family of educators ourselves, we were delighted to hear he spent his career in elementary education. If he inspired those students as much as he did the people who watched him grow up in Cape (and we know he did), what a contribution to humanity he has made. Obviously, Curtis is one of our heroes. It was a great article to read, and we hope Cape didn't miss it.

TRUMAN and RUTH SMITH

Cape Girardeau