CARMEL – At first he was putting them in a scrapbook, letters and pictures and wedding announcements, but the scrapbooks kept filling up. Now he puts them in a box, which also is filling up. He’ll figure out what to do, but that’s for another today. On this day the scrapbooks and the box are sitting on a counter that overlooks the Lucas Oil Stadium rising majestically from his basement.
Pay attention, because they are related.
A man dives into his career, immerses himself fully and emotionally, and he needs a release, an escape. Mike Bostic is a teacher, a physical education instructor of 20 years at Forest Dale Elementary, the kind who gets emotional on the last day of school because these are kids he has cared about, kids he will always care about, and it’s time to say goodbye.