BRONSON The cast of Bronson Community School’s spring musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” will offer a special performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, celebrating the life of Dawn Gallup, who lost her battle with cancer March 4.Gallup, a special education administrator for the Branch Intermediate School District, also taught three years in Reading Community Schools and 14 years at Bronson High School. During her years in Bronson, Dawn and her husband Jeff Gallup, a Bronson High School teacher and football coach, brought musical theater back to the district.Proceeds from Sunday’s show will go to the cast’s choice of three local charities: the Community Health Center of Branch County Foundation to assist cancer patients, Tibbits Foundation or Bronson Community Schools at the Branch Community Foundation.”Those are three things Dawn would have loved,” Gallup said, explaining the three options: “It’s heartbreaking to hear people rearranging a chemotherapy appointment because they don’t have gas money,” he said. Because they value theater, the Gallups were often involved at Tibbits over the years. Theater is extremely important and must remain an option for Bronson students, he said.The cast will announce their choice at the performance.A special show held at 2 p.m. Debbie Metzger passed away a year later.Heather (Metzger) Castle, a 2001 BHS graduate, now of Spring Arbor, talked about her years under the direction of the Gallups. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+htmlencode(mainImageData_caption)+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);
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