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But as much as Cindy enjoyed walk into her classroom
writing, she found her calling in just to make sure each
teaching. She taught English at one of them hears their
Lockney High School for a year and name and knows he or
was headed into her second when she is important. She
her principal approached her with a encourages students to
proposition: to take over the school’s do their best, and she
drama department after its previous does anything needed to
teacher announced her move. Cindy help them. From writing
remembered being anxious about recommendation letters
teaching a subject she hadn’t been to keeping students on
a part of since high school, but just top of their grades, Cindy
like she handles everything else in Couch never lets a student
life, she jumped head first into the down. She even helped
opportunity. “I didn’t know which a senior this year get her
was left stage or right stage, and I play manuscript entered
was up all night studying before into a playwriting contest.
rehearsals,” Cindy remembers about She is always helping
her first year as a theatre director. students reach their full
She did five years of Shakespeare potential. Cindy Couch
plays because she felt that was what has been an inspiration
she knew best from her English not only to her students
background. but to everyone in her life. to fight for them, and she does it all
Her 23 grandchildren all consider with a beautiful, bright smile on her
Cindy later married her husband, themselves lucky to look up to a face.
Greg Couch, and they moved to woman like her. Cindy is, in the
Olton where she taught Theatre best sense of the word, a fighter. She
and English for 12 years. Her fought through a unique childhood Kaytlyn Bunting is 17, and a Junior
superintendent, Phil Warren, with deaf parents, she fought to at Shallowater High School. She is
brought Cindy and Greg with maintain three jobs while raising currently in Mrs. Couch’s Theater class,
him when he moved schools from her children, and now she fights but has known her since 6th grade,
Olton to Shallowater. Cindy has every day on behalf of the people when she became involved in One Act
been working as Shallowater’s she loves. She stands in the corner of Play.
Theatre Director for 18 years. She anyone who doesn’t have someone
currently teaches four Theatre
classes and directs both high school
and middle school One Act Play.
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