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Atlanta — Going into retirement, 58-year-old David White of Atlanta, Georgia, had some preconceived notions. "I thought it would be blissful and easy and joyful," White told CBS News. "… It wasn't quite." In September 2025, White retired after 33 years in education, the last 15 spent as principal at the Burgess-Peterson Academy, an elementary school. It was a career so illustrious that White was once awarded Principal of the Year for the entire Atlanta Public Schools district. He said he left mostly to be free of the daily demands. But having so much free time got old. "I was...

On May 16, 2025, the remains of a human foot inside a hiking boot were found in a shoe on the shores of Fishlake, Utah. Investigators were able to determine the hiking boot was only made in 1996 for one year. Sevier County Sheriff’s Office (Utah) had a cold case where an individual from Washington, Utah had gone missing in September 1997. That individual was David White. White intended to go fishing with friends and had rented a nearby hotel room. Those plans fell through so White, an avid fisherman, went fishing solo. His boat was later reportedly found trolling...

Dr. David White, Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, and the Faith They PreservedMy journey to Catholicism began in earnest in Dr. David Allen White’s classroom in 1993, a few months after he published his biography of Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, The Mouth of the Lion. As an agnostic plebe in Dr. White’s Naval Academy English class, I naturally had no idea that he would eventually lead me to the religion that Bishop de Castro Mayer fought so valiantly to preserve. But Dr. White was a truth-teller, and he gradually taught me (and many other midshipmen over the years) that...