Guest Editorials

by jerry tipton
Lexington Herald-Leader
Robert Gayle Rose — one of 43 former Kentucky players, coaches and contributors to have a retired jersey hanging in Rupp Arena — died on Nov. 12. Ten days earlier was his 84th birthday.
Rose played for UK in the early 1950s. A 6-foot guard, he started and averaged 6.7 points for Kentucky’s unbeaten (25-0) team in the 1953-54 season. That remains the only unbeaten team in UK basketball history.
Rose started and averaged 7.4 points as a senior in 1954-55.

BY TOM EBLEN
Lexington Herald-Leader
A small, abandoned cemetery in the middle of a mobile home subdivision off Tates Creek Road near the Fayette-Jessamine county line has been found to contain the family graves of the man who gave Abraham Lincoln some of his first jobs.
Denton Offutt was a well-known horse trainer who left Lexington for New Salem, Ill., where he hired the future president to crew a flatboat and later manage his general store and mill.

BY JUDE CANCHOLA