Ceremony set for Superintendent Donald Pace at Conkwright Elementary

WINCHESTER, Ky. (WTVQ) – A Celebration of Life for former Clark County Superintendent and current Lewis County Superintendent Donald Pace will be held at 2 p.m., October 1, in the Conkwright Elementary Gymnasium in Winchester, 360 Mt. Sterling Road. Family will welcome students, colleagues, and friends from 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Mr. Pace also served as superintendent in Mason, Montgomery and Campbell counties.

Mr. Pace, who was 76, served in various education capacities for 58 years, beginning with his first teaching position in 1958 in Harlan County Schools when he was 18 years old.

In 1961-1965, Mr. Pace taught and coached basketball at Liberty Union Junior High School in Butler County, Ohio. He returned to Kentucky in 1965 to serve as principal of Walton-Verona Elementary School and Assistant Principal at Walton-Verona High School.

The majority of Mr. Pace’s education career included service to Clark County Schools where he was superintendent 1984-1999; Conkwright Junior High principal 1969-1984; principal at Belmont Junior High in 1968, and principal at Fannie Bush Elementary in 1967.

The Donald Pace Youth Scholarship has been established in his honor at Kentucky Bank, 24 West Lexington Ave., Winchester.