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     If I had not decided to attend church at Humphrey, instead of Lodge Corner, for most Sundays in May 2004, I most likely would have not met Mr Henley. As things turned out, I was pumped about teaching upper-level math; but I gradually found Spanish to be more of a downer compared to Marvell. In the second half of the year, I feel that my upcoming marriage and impeding closure of the school caused things to end the way that they did. Maybe I shouldn't have announced about marrying Pat and moving across the river; or maybe I should have gotten Pat to join me in the Razorback State (later on I did find out that I would have been recommended for 2005-06 in De Witt (who knows, but I may have had a chance to teach Advanced Placement and/or dual enrollment classes at De Witt High School). Part of me also feels that things took a downward spiral due to Henley wanting to be a superintendent again--not a combination principal/assistant superintendent. He did take a superintendent's position at a district in another part of Arkansas.

     NOTEWORTHY:  While in Humphrey, then-Governor Mike Huckabee approved a big pay raise for teachers that raised my annual salary from $28,450 to $30,450. Little did I know then that the lack of morale my last few months there would be duplicated thirteen years later at Strider.

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