E.O. and Vivian David were instrumental in the quest to provide quality education for African American students in Cynthiana. E. 0. was born in Cynthiana and graduated from Wilberforce University and the University of Cincinnati. He came to Banneker School in 1930 as a coach and science teacher, taking over the reins as principal after the retirement of principal W. E. Newsom in 1941. When Banneker closed in 1963, E.0.moved to the local junior high school. In 1974, the Davids' daughter Marilyn wrote that her father "spent the remainder of his life teaching science and developing a curriculum for education, and stressed physical education as developing the storehouse for man's knowledge." He was, she says, a "truly devoted teacher, thinking only of his students and how he could help them. Many have been able to go to college through his efforts to obtain scholarships and financial aid for them." Vivian F. David, a native of Urbana,:

Ohio, met E. 0. David as a student at Wilberforce. A graduate of Central State University and the University of Kentucky, she was a full-time teacher at Banneker from 1946 until the school closure in 1963. She developed the music department and taught choral music, speech, and dramatics. The couple had three children: Teresa Moore, Baldwin David, and Marilyn Davi Wash.
(Courtesy of Marilyn David Wash.)