DAVE ROBERTS, shown shaking hands with Lakers standout Constance Stech (40) before a Division III district semifinal contest at Lakeside in February, is hanging ’em up as a teacher and coach at Pymatuning Valley after 35 years of service. BILL WEST / Star Beacon
TOM HARRIS Star Beacon
Published June 25, 2009 01:09 am - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
A Tom Harris column: Mister Roberts Popular teacher, coach Dave Roberts moving on after 35 years at PV
TOM HARRIS Star Beacon
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise …
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man my son!
— From “If,” by Rudyard Kipling
As a teacher and coach, Dave Roberts hoped to pass on important life lessons to his students and athletes. Many of those lessons, he said, are found in the words of Kipling.
Wielding a shovel and filling potholes with tar doesn’t sound like retirement. That is what Dave Roberts is doing, however, riding off into the sunset in a dump truck after 35 years of teaching and coaching in the Pymatuning Valley Local Schools.
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