If you ran into Bennie Cunningham walking the halls of West-Oak High School in the northwestern corner of South Carolina, you might not know what to expect. What you got was one of the nicest and most caring individuals you would ever care to meet.
I grew up watching Cunningham and the Pittsburgh Steelers dominate the NFL in the 1970’s – Cunningham was a tight end on two of the Steelers’ four Super Bowl-winning teams. Cunningham was a career counselor at West-Oak when I ran into him, and it was obvious that he was more interested in the kind of people his students were going to be than his past accomplishments.