Inevitable, but still very sad.

Charles Seifert, former Salem High School drama and English teacher, passed away this morning after a year long battle with lung cancer, a result of a life long addiction to cigarettes.

He leaves behind a family, as well as generations of students who are not suprised that he went this way, but feel a deep sense of waste at the years he could have had, if he hadn't been smoking behind dumpsters during class breaks.

He will be missed.