Cecil Godbold

SMC Staff

“I’ve got two kids and a wife: the nuclear family you always hear about. I guess we’re part of an endangered species.”

Cecil Godbold works in the graphics and printing department creating the documents that represent SMC to the world. “It’s been a wonderful experience,” he says. “There’s so much information that passes before my eyes that I feel I’ve gained a lot of knowledge by osmosis. And with all of the events and speakers that appear on campus,” he continues, “I feel that my work has enriched me greatly.”

Cecil learned his trade during a four-year stint with the Air Force. “I was discharged on July 5, 1985,” he remembers. “I started work at SMC the following week. With a family, there just isn’t an allowance for idle time.” Still, Cecil feels that life is a brim-full cup and that his work, in many cases, is its own reward. “SMC is always a positive experience for me,” he says. “We’re always first in this, first in that. And the curriculum is always changing to help people look at things in a different way.”

Cecil admires many of the teachers he’s met on campus and says that “the best ones seem to be those that can look at the world through the eyes of a student. They’re they ones who can still remember what it was like for them,” he adds.

“I asked a friend of mine just the other day,” continues Cecil, “if he ever gets nervous teaching. He told me that, yes, he did. And that was because he was always changing his own material. He said that if he ever got too smooth in what he was doing, then he’d know he was just going through the motions. And that just doesn’t cut it here.”

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