Fayette County BOE President Dies

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Sixty year old Leon Newman, a longtime member of the Fayette County Board of Education, died Tuesday morning of a sudden heart attack. Newman, who served on the board for more than a decade, was acting as the current board president. Newman was the first black person to serve on the board and the first elected to a countywide office since 1918. Newman was a proponent of school consolidation and oversaw the controversial closings of a handful of high schools in the county.