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Last May, the head of the math department at my high school was retiring and moving to Georgia. I rewrote the lyrics to “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and some other crazy math teachers decided to sing the song for her at her retirement party. We couldn’t find a lot of time to practice, so they day of, we took all of our students, brought them in my classroom, and had them watch as we practiced the song a few times at the end of the school day. We had a “choreographer” from the Houston Bar Association’s Night Court come in to help us, and of course, we couldn’t have pulled it off without the vocal talents of Melinda (aka Gladys Knight).

I think Diana enjoyed the musical tribute to her time at SWHS, and I hope she’s enjoying life in Georgia even more.