Cecil Roland Paul (1935–1992) was a minister, educator, community leader, and academic.
A Canadian by birth, Paul was born in rural Alberta, in a log cabin with no running water.
He would later attend Canadian Nazarene College in Red Deer, Alberta and pursue graduate study at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri before earning a doctoral degree in psychology and pastoral counseling from Boston University.
He also founded the college's division of adult and graduate studies in 1981, increasing total enrollment by nearly 50 percent.
Paul also founded the Beechwood Community Life Center, also in Wollaston, Massachusetts, and was a co-founder of the Senior Olympics.