If everything had gone according to Dr. David Snead’s original plan, after graduating with honors from Tuskegee University in 1968, the Detroit native would have returned to his alma mater following graduate school to serve as a professor and football coach at the historically Black university for the "rest of his life."

Instead, Snead would go on to become an educational leader in his hometown, which included being the principal at two Detroit high schools — Redford and Cass Tech — before holding the position of Detroit Public Schools general superintendent from 1993 to 1997. Afterward, Snead had an 11-year stint as superintendent of the Waterbury Public Schools in Connecticut, which ended with his retirement in 2011.

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