Another "star"

You may remember this picture from my Christmas program last year. Eighth grade Derrick Kreider played the lead role of Marcus, a Roman tax collector.

Now just a year later Derrick played the lead role of Harry Witherspoon in our local high school's production of Lucky Stiff. In fact, three of the lead roles were my former students. The lead female role was played by Kelsey Snavely, pictured below with Derrick.

Another lead was played by William Gray. He had to pretend he was Derrick's dead uncle the whole evening, propped up in a wheel chair! At one point when Derrick was having a bad dream, the dead uncle got up and danced. Just hilarious!

How I miss Derrick. In fact, our whole school misses him. He was such a wonderful influence in our middle school.

Make sure you read my next post if you haven't already. There's good news about my neice Lori.