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\"Drama<\/a>Two days ago, a dear high school friend sent a Facebook private message. “I ran across this tonight,” the message said. <\/em><\/p>\n

“This” was an obituary for Roger Hallum, our high school speech and drama coach. According to the obituary Mr. Hallum\u2013who will always be Mr. Hallum and never Roger to me\u2013died on July 1, 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n

He’s been gone five years and we, the students he touched in profound ways, never knew. We never had a chance to say thank you. We never had a chance to tell him how he shaped and bolstered the confidence of a bunch of squirrely teens as he tapped into our talents.<\/em><\/p>\n

So five years late, this top ten list says thank you for the lessons he taught so well more than 4 decades ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Never judge a book by its cover. None of us believed a dumpy man who wore his sandy hair shaggy and unkempt, whose teeth that never saw braces, and who wore saggy plaid suit jackets and polyester pants could motivate high schoolers to spend months of each year rehearsing and performing in plays and speech contests.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 When your director says, “Jump,” you say, “How high?”<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Good writing isn’t enough to make a good speech. Neither is good delivery. But good writing + good delivery = magic.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Never, ever start smoking. Because trying to quit is hell and requires copious amounts of Live Savers candies.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Teenagers, given a vision of what they can do if they work far harder than they believe they can and tasked with far more responsibility than school administrators believe is wise, can accomplish tasks beyond what most adults think they can do.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Timing is everything.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 An army jeep, a goat, and 30 tie-dyed bedsheets sewn into kimonos, make for an exciting, unexpected, and visually pleasing rendition of Tea House of the August Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Character parts are much more fun to play than romantic leads.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 A pregnant pause speaks louder than words.<\/p>\n

1. One unassuming person…one dumpy, shaggy-haired man with crooked teeth, saggy plaid suit jackets and polyester trousers…who says “You can do this because you have talent,” can change the course of an insecure teenager’s life.<\/p>\n

In memory of Mr. Roger Hallum, Feb. 8, 1939\u2013July 1, 2009. Your former students are still jumping, higher than they ever thought they could.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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