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File Photos by Jennifer Compston-Strough â Stan Sobel, center, is honored at the end of his term as mayor of Belmont about a year ago. He was succeeded by Ron Woods, right. At left is Councilman Mike Murphy, who along with Sobel, holds signage dedicating the new village playground in Sobelâs honor. Sobel died Tuesday.
BELMONT –Â Stan Sobel, a man who made a big impact on his community and on hundreds of local students, died last week at age 74.
Born in Columbus, Sobel attended Ohio State University and several other institutions of higher learning before launching his career as a science teacher. He moved to Belmont County in the 1970s, beginning a long term of service at Union Local High School teaching classes such as biology and physiology. Dozens of his former students expressed kind wishes for him or a willingness to help meet his needs during his recent illness.
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Stan Sobel, center, is honored at the end of his term as mayor of Belmont about a year ago. He was succeeded by Ron Woods, right. At left is Councilman Mike Murphy, who along with Sobel, holds signage dedicating the new village playground in Sobel’s honor. Sobel died Tuesday.
BELMONT Stan Sobel, a man who made a big impact on his community and on hundreds of local students, died Tuesday. He was 74.
Born in Columbus, Sobel attended Ohio State University and several other institutions of higher learning before launching his career as a science teacher. He moved to Belmont County in the 1970s, beginning a long term of service at Union Local High School teaching classes such as biology and physiology. Dozens of his former students expressed kind wishes for him or a willingness to help meet his needs during his recent illness.
He was born on November 12, 1946, in Columbus, Ohio.
He attended several universities during his lifetime, which all helped to shape Stan Sobel as a person. He was especially happy to have attended the Ohio State University, where he studied science and how to root for the defeat of U of Michigan’s football teams. He attended Rio Grande University, where he learned leadership skills and the essentials of teaching. At Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, and Arizona State U., Phoenix, he learned and worked with isolating DNA and then relating that work to altering genetics. He also attended Ohio University, where he not only took classes to extend his teaching credentials but also met up with the William Bartels family, which became his second family.