Ronnie Asbill
Asbill, who has taught and coached at SHS since 1971, is retiring.
He has coached football 38 of his 39 years at Sallisaw, as well as 30 years of wrestling and some golf.
Asbill, 62, grew up in Northview, going to school his first eight years in the one-room Northview School. He began his athletic career at Tommie Spears Junior High. He played football and baseball and wrestled throughout his high school career, earning all-conference honors as a fullback in 1966. He graduated in 1967 and got his teaching degree at NSU in 1971. In 1989 he got his Master of Education degree.
He has taught social studies, PE and driver’s education at SHS.
He and his wife, the former Sandra Corn, have one son (Greg) and four grandchildren, as well as three children and three grandchildren from Sandra’s previous marriage. Until health problems began affecting him, Asbill had no thoughts of retiring, once quipping, “Why in the world would I want to quit teaching and have to find a job I don’t even like?”
