Former Greenup County Schools superintendent John Younce makes a presentation at a public hearing Thursday evening on a proposal to raise the public tax by 4% to renovate the high school.
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SOUTH SHORE Former school superintendent John Younce was a role model for a generation of educators in the Greenup County District, where he is being mourned following his death Thursday.
"We sometimes joked we were going to get bracelets saying 'WWJYD,' for 'What would John Younce do,'" said Chris Ailster, assistant principal at McKell Middle School.
Younce was principal at McKell when Ailster got his first teaching job there and Ailster remembers him as a family friend, a coach, a father figure and a dedicated educator.