In August, 2007, I wrote to my college professor with a simple question about a play I was reading and got an answer I never expected.  He said that he'd been diagnosed with adreno-cortical carcinoma and that the prognosis was not good.  I spent a lot of time feeling really sad, but woke up one morning, PRAISE GOD, with the idea to start a Relay team to support this wonderful teacher from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.  I'm glad he knew about the team before he passed away on January 9, 2008.  He was even looking forward to the Survivor's Lap.  The registration form probably reached his doorstep the day of his funeral, that's how quickly the cancer took him.  The fundraising is going quite well despite the lack of Millersville students who have been coming forward to join the team.  Maybe they didn't appreciate Dr. Centola's 3 hour lectures about Arthur Miller and American Drama, but I hung on every word, perhaps somehow knowing that the world was about to lose this treasure of a teacher. 

Dr. Centola edited a collection of theater essays by Arthur Miller.  They worked collaboratively on the project, and I know my teacher was very proud of it.  If you are already involved with the Relay and have already made your donation to the ACS, maybe you'd like to pick up a copy of Echoes Down the Corridor by Steven R. Centola.  I know it would make him happy for everyone to read it because that's what he was all about.  Both he and Arthur Miller are gone now, both to cancer, but their legacies live on in the literature and in the Relay for Life!