PAST EXPERIENCE

SHIRLEY ANN MUMAUGH
(Inland Steel-Ryerson Teacher of the Year--1993)
(Who's Who Among America's Teachers--1996)
(Hobart Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Educator – 2009)

PAST EXPERIENCE (1972 to 2001):

DIRECTOR

"The Crucible" - 1973, 1983, 1993
Hobart High School Talent Show - 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981,1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
"My Sister Eileen" - 1974 (Auditorium Opened)
"The Clown Who Ran Away" - 1974, 1990
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" - 1975, 1987 (HCT)
"See How They Run" - 1976
"The Lottery" - 1976, 1983, 1992
"The Mouse That Roared" - 1977, 1994
"The Prince(ss) Who Wouldn't Grow" - 1977, 1991
"Our Town" - 1977, 1992
Jaycee's Junior Miss Pageant - 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
Magic Show - 1978
"Game" - 1979
"Bar and Ger" - 1979
"The Prodigal Daughter" - 1979
"M*A*S*H" - 1979
"Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys" - 1980
Summer Adult Talent Show - 1981, 1982
"Inherit the Wind" - 1981
"The Hobbitt" - 1982
"The Invisible Dragon" - 1982
"Just Tell Me Why" - 1982
Pantomime/Improvisational Group - 1982
"Up the Down Staircase" - 1982, 1991
"Alice in Wonderland" - 1983
"Once Upon a Time" - 1984
"Once Upon a Shoe" - 1984
"Who's That Lady in the President's Bed?" - 1984 (cafeteria)
"The Toy Shop" - 1984 (cafeteria)
"Cinderella" - 1985
"I'm a Celebrity!" - 1985
"Flowers for Algernon" - 1985
"Christmas Windows" - 1985
"The Golden Goose" - 1986
Literary Arts Festival - 1986, 1988
"Feiffer's People" - 1986
"With Respect to Theatre" - 1987 (original script - Marsha Plemons)
"Gloomy B'Glum" - 1987 (original script - Marsha Plemons)
"Just for Kicks" - 1987
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest" - 1988
Ridge View Talent Show - 1988
G.T. Scenes and All the World's a Stage - 1988
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" - 1988
"The Night of January 16th" - 1988
"The Prince and the Pauper" - 1989
"Mike's Case" - 1989
"Cerberus" - 1989
"May the Farce be with You" - 1989
"Stage Door" - 1990
"The Christmas Carol" - 1990
"Something in the Air Feels Like Tomorrow" - 1991 (Musical)
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" - 1992
"The Trial of Goldilocks" - 1993
"The Emperor's New Clothes" - 1993
"Stuart Little" - 1994
"The Glass Menagerie" – 1996

ACTING - PLAY & ROLE

(Hobart Community Theatre[HCT])
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" - Mrs. McCutcheon - 1987
"The Horror Show" - Linda - 1988 (Original Script - David Theil)
"See How They Run" - Miss Skillon - 1988
"Bye, Bye, Birdie" - Mrs. Merkle & Mayor's Wife - 1990
"The Curious Savage" - Florence - 1991
"Picnic" - Mrs. Helen Potts - 1993
"Harvey" - Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet – 2001

CHORUS

(Ross Music Theatre / M & M Productions)
"The Wizard of Oz" - 1996
"The Music Man" – 1997

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

"Hay Fever" - 1974 (Wabash College)
"Hello, Dolly!" - 1976
"Annie, Get Your Gun" - 1981
"Grease" - 1984
Hobart High School Talent Show – 1996

TECHNICAL CREW

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - 1974 (Wabash College)
1992 (Hobart High School)
"Fiddler on the Roof" - 1974 (Ross Summer Music Theatre)
Hobart High School Talent Show - 1979
Jaycee's Junior Miss Pageant - 1984
Ridge View Talent Show – 1986

PRODUCER

"Wings" -- 1986

MAKE-UP

"Up the Down Staircase" - 1972
"Carousel" - 1973
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - 1976
"Godspell" - 1977
"Wizard of Oz" - 1977
"Winnie the Pooh" - 1978
"Mame" - 1978
"Anything Goes" – 1980

AUDIENCE

1972 to present!

(I gave up teaching theatre; I did not give up loving it!)

BREAK A LEG!

VALIDATION

When TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY ended, I reflected on the 37 years I've taught at Hobart High School:
Have kids changed in those years? Not really - still interested in same subjects; still worried about same issues. Have parents changed? A little - their kids are still their best legacy. Has society changed? Technologically more than anything. (When I started teaching, I didn't even own a calculator! My parents gave me one that did the 4 major functions as a Christmas gift! Now, I think I can't possibly do grades without the computer!)
In all 37 years, I really have felt "appreciated" - subject matter probably had the most impact on that. I LIKE living in Hobart - grocery store clerks know where I'm parked!
So, why do I feel "validated"? In high school, I was president of our Future Teachers of America club.

(look and laugh below:)

http://hobart.schoolwires.com/1413202693052303/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=57618

Worked like a dog planning activities, field trips, so on. (Actually went to a school board meeting when Richard Lugar was on the Indianapolis School Board!)
On Senior Awards Day, I did not even know there was a Future Teacher Award until SOMEONE ELSE received it! I was devastated. (I heard that she did NOT even become a teacher!) Since that day, I have wanted to prove myself. In 1993, I received an award that was given by my peers (or a committee who I always thought gave the award to me because my sister and nephew moved in with me!)
This year, I am honored, excited, humbled by accepting the Hobart Chamber of Commerce / Hobart Education Foundation Outstanding Educator Award for Hobart High School. (They select a high school, a middle school, and an elementary school teacher.)
I do feel "validation."

FOR MY FAVORITE "PERFORMERS"

BREAK A LEG

in all your performances!

I may have given up teaching theatre, but I did NOT give up loving theatre!

I LOVE YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sharon

Sometimes it takes a bit of a "crisis" to help me remember what's REALLY important!

I am so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends - Sharon's recent "episode" reminded me how much our 6 decades together have really meant to me.

Sharon / Shirley, Allison / Megan, Austin / Hayden, Eli / Katie --- WE all know about that special "thing" that twins share. It's a world I wish everyone could know.

1-2-3, Sharon!

SPECIAL WEEK

A rainy day starts a busy, busy week. The rain reminds me "April showers"

bring "May flowers" and God's promise.

This week reminds us to celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday and Arbor Day on Friday.

Friday also marks new beginnings as Bryan has his first "opening night" in community theatre.

His friend helped write the script and Bryan has made me really proud stepping outside of his "comfort zone" with the production.

Sharon and I also mark a milestone on Friday.

This "decade" marker comes with joy about family and friends and new babies.

Edith Easter

THE STORY OF EDITH BURNS...


Happy Easter!

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas. She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart because of Edith Burns.When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying, "My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you believe about Easter?" Beverly said, "Well, it's all about egg hunts, going to church, and dressing up." Edith kept pressing her about the real meaning of Easter, and finally led her to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Dr. Phillips said, " Beverly, don't call Edith into the office quite yet. I believe there is another delivery taking place in the waiting room. After being called back in the doctor's office, Edith sat down and when she took a look at the doctor she said, "Dr. Will, why are you so sad? Are you reading your Bible? Are you praying?" Dr. Phillips said gently, "Edith, I'm the doctor and you're the patient." With a heavy heart he said, "Your lab report came back and it says you have cancer, and Edith, you're not going to live very long." Edith said, "Why, Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are you so sad? Do you think God makes mistakes? You have just told me I'm going to see my precious Lord Jesus, my husband, and my friends. You have just told me that I am going to celebrate Easter forever, and here you are having difficulty giving me my ticket!" Dr. Phillips thought to himself, "What a magnificent woman this Edith Burns is!" Edith continued coming to Dr. Phillips. Christmas came and the office was closed through January 3rd. On the day the office opened, Edith did not show up. Later that afternoon, Edith called Dr. Phillips and said she would have to be moving her story to the hospital and said, "Will, I'm very near home, so would you make sure that they put women in here next to me in my room who need to know about Easter." Well, they did just that and women began to come in and share that room with Edith. Many women were saved. Everybody on that floor from staff to patients were so excited about Edith, that they started calling her Edith Easter; that is everyone except Phyllis Cross, the head nurse. Phyllis made it plain that she wanted nothing to do with Edith because she was a "religious nut." She had been a nurse in an army hospital. She had seen it all and heard it all. She was the original G.I. Jane. She had been married three times; she was hard, cold, and did everything by the book. One morning the two nurses who were to attend to Edith were sick. Edith had the flu and Phyllis Cross had to go in and give her a shot. When she walked in, Edith had a big smile on her face and said, "Phyllis, God loves you and I love you, and I have been praying for you." Phyllis Cross said, "Well, you can quit praying for me, it won't work.. I'm not interested." Edith said, "Well, I will pray and I have asked God not to let me go home until you come into the family." Phyllis Cross said, "Then you will never die because that will never happen,"and curtly walked out of the room. Every day Phyllis Cross would walk into the room and Edith would say, "God loves you Phyllis and I love you, and I'm praying for you." One day Phyllis Cross said she was literally drawn to Edith's room like a magnet would draw iron. She sat down on the bed and Edith said, "I'm so glad you have come, because God told me that today is your special day." Phyllis Cross said, "Edith, you have asked everybody here the question, 'Doyou believe in Easter?' but you have never asked me." Edith said, "Phyllis, I wanted to many times, but God told me to wait until you asked, and now you have asked." Edith Burns took her Bible and shared with Phyllis Cross the Easter Story of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Edith said, "Phyllis, do you believe in Easter? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is alive and that He wants to live in your heart?" Phyllis Cross said, "Oh, I want to believe that with all of my heart, and I do want Jesus in my life." Right there, Phyllis Cross prayed and invited Jesus Christ into her heart. For the first time Phyllis Cross did not walk out of a hospital room, she was carried out on the wings of angels. Two days later, Phyllis Cross came in and Edith said, "Do you know what day it is?" Phyllis Cross said, "Why, Edith, it's Good Friday." Edith said, "Oh, no, for you every day is Easter. Happy Easter, Phyllis!" Two days later, on Easter Sunday, Phyllis Cross came into work, did some of her duties and then went down to the flower shop and got someEaster lilies because she wanted to go up to see Edith and give her some Easter lilies and wish her a Happy Easter. When she walked into Edith's room, Edith was in bed. That big black Bible was on her lap. Her hands were in that Bible. There was a sweet smile on her face. When Phyllis Cross went to pick up Edith's hand, she realized Edith was dead. Her left hand was on John 14: "In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also." Her right hand was on Revelation 21:4, "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, there shall be no more death nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." Phyllis Cross took one look at that dead body, and then lifted her face toward heaven, and with tears streaming down her cheeks, said, "Happy Easter, Edith - Happy Easter!" Phyllis Cross left Edith's body, walked out of the room, and over to a table where two student nurses were sitting. She said, "My name is Phyllis Cross. Doyou believe in Easter?" God works in wonderful ways, and to believe in his power is to truly be free.


"Father, bless this person in whatever it is that You know he or she may be needing this day."

FOUND MY BRICK

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  When planning for the new Hobart High School building began three years ago, I was SOOOOO excited! (I have never even moved into a new house!) I was particularly happy that the decision was made to build a THEATRE rather than another auditorium - the smaller venue would be much better suited to perform plays and musicals with the smaller, more intimate seating. Since the old building was being remodeled for the middle school, the larger facility would still be available for larger groups.
  
  Another offer extended to the community was the chance to purchase bricks for sale to be placed in various areas on campus. I jumped right on that bandwagon and ordered one. This week, I found mine - located by the Performing Arts Center.
  
  Several people asked how to get their own brick at the new Hobart High School. The bricks are just one of the items available as part of the campus beautification program. Here's the link to the form.
  
  http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/newHHS/PDF/Brick%20donation%20flyer%20revised.pdf

Have fun ordering your own!

ONCE A BRICKIE, ALWAYS A BRICKIE!