Coach Painter is the teacher that many students don’t get to have until their senior year of high school. Unless you get him for sociology, you have to wait 3 years before entering into the exciting world of Government and Economics. For those of you who have never had him, or even for those of you who do, here are some things you may not know:

1) The dad of Coach Painter’s best friend in elementary school was part of President Eisenhower’s secret service. One day he got to go along to pick up his friend’s dad and had the opportunity of meeting Eisenhower. He has also met President George W. Bush and came within feet of meeting President Clinton.

2) Coach Painter had the opportunity to go to a dinner with David Brinkley who was on National News.

3) He had a cousin who starred on Days Of Our Lives as the wife of the bad guy.

4) When he was younger he sang first soprano in the Alexandria City Choir and now sings in his current church choir.

5) In 1940, his dad was offered a military job in Hawaii but he didn’t go. If he had, he would’ve been there when the Japanese attacked and there’s a possibility he wouldn’t be around today.

6) He was on a plane that landed in Atlanta but was going to continue on to somewhere else. If he had stayed on, he would’ve ended up in Cuba because the plane was hijacked.

7) While chaperoning a dance, he saw two kids get their braces stuck together. At a basketball game one of his players got one of her teeth stuck in another players head and saw someone’s eye ball pop out.

8) He swam in the Junior Olympics and the woman timing him was a 4 time gold medalist.

9) He convinced a waitress in the north that the south is full of grits trees.

10) He taught governor Edward’s daughter. A sled agent brought her to school everyday.

Of course, every senior won’t have the opportunity to have Coach Painter, so here’s a word of advice from him.

“Make sure you work on your study skills and work ethic. When you get to college they expect you to know things. Don’t take your senior year lightly.”