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Gender	Male
Location	Syracuse, New York
Introduction	Herm is a retired English Teacher, having taught in the Marcellus Central School District for 32 years. He is a former baseball player and coach at Syracuse University, a former military officer, a retired NCAA baseball umpire, and was recently inducted into the New York State High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame as a baseball and soccer official. He has been named a 2018 Syracuse University Letterwinner of Distinction. He has written extensively on the state of education today, and has been published in educational journals throughout the country. He has been named a New York State Educator of Excellence, and his Celebration of Poetry program was named a New York State English Council Program of Excellence. He has published three books of his poetry and he and his wife, Dolores, recently published The Missing Piece: Educating New Kids for a New World. (http://bookstore.balboapress.com/Products/SKU-000605100/The-Missing-Piece.aspx). He has served on the boards of New York State English Council and the Central New York Teacher Center and is a former editor of The English Record, the professional journal of the New York State English Council.
Interests	Herm is a photojournalist, poet, teacher, baseball rules interpreter, professional development specialist, motivational speaker and former education consultant to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.