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 Fred T. Bull also was former track, football coach.
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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.06.2008
Fred T. Bull, retired superintendent of the Sunnyside Unified School District, had died. He was 83.
Bull died Thursday night from complications of Parkinson's disease.
The lifelong educator capped his 39 years with the district by serving as superintendent from 1980 to 1992.
"He was one of the best administrators I ever worked with," said Fran Johnson, who worked in the Sunnyside district for 24 years.
"His teachers and his administrators totally respected him and worked well with him," she said. "He always had an open-door policy. He always listened to what their concerns were."
Bull earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona before starting work for the district in 1953 as a health and physical-education teacher and coach at Sunnyside Junior High School. He later earned a master's degree in education from the UA.
He moved on to Sunnyside High School in 1955. He served as head coach in football and track, and taught physical education until 1968, when he became the school's assistant principal for curriculum and instruction.
Bull spent nine years in that position before becoming principal of Sunnyside Junior High School, where he remained for three years before becoming the district's superintendent in 1980.
Upon his retirement, the district renamed its headquarters at 2238 E. Ginter Road as the Fred T. Bull Administration Building.
Kathy Laird, the district's Medicaid reimbursement specialist, had known Bull since she was a student at Sunnyside High.
"He was so well-thought-of and respected and admired," she said. "He just meant so much to the school district, and everything he did was for the kids. He always called them 'kiddos.'
"His bottom-line question, when anyone wanted to do anything, was, 'How is this going to help the kiddos?' "
Bull was inducted into the Sunnyside School District Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2004, its inaugural year. Among his other accomplishments, Bull was the winner of the 1951 Mr. Arizona bodybuilding contest.
● Contact reporter Kimberly Matas at kmatas@azstarnet.com or at 573-4191.
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