Before the Picture Fades

<p>By creating many student-driven organizations and activities the principal empowered the student body and faculty to embrace a dynamic spirit of the soul. Removing all obstacles including the football team basketball became the centerpiece for the school and community.</p><p>Through almost 70 years basketball at Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford Connecticut was sacrosanct leading to countless wins and championships.</p><p>Amid the deleterious events regarding football over seven decades the most improbable and indeed the most impossible of moments came in the form of a miracle the 1985 state football championship for Lyman Hall High School. Before the Picture Fades is the story of the events that resulted in that miracle. Nary a rah-rah sports piece with exciting moments and colorful characters this book examines circumstances and consequences that often face public secondary schools.</p><p>Whether you shake your head laugh or cheer loudly Before the Picture Fades will swing the door of your heart wide open with endless exultation.</p>