抗日战争胜利后，杨显东任国民党行政院善后救济总署湖北分署代署长。他为了改变家乡文化落后状况，私人倾产兴学，在汉水之滨矗立起一所“洋”学堂，造福桑梓，至今为家乡父老乡亲传颂、敬仰。杨显东的母亲聂小宝是一位有文化修养的女性，生前这样嘱咐过显东：“如有机会可为? After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Hsien-tung was the acting director of the Hubei branch of the Kuomintang Executive Yuan. In order to change the backwardness of his hometown culture, he personally privated him and established a “foreign” school on the coast of the Han River to benefit the homeland. He has been praising and admiring his hometown folks. Yang Hsien Tung’s mother, Nie Xiaobao is a woman with a culture of culture, before his death had asked East was: "If there is a chance for?