About Mrs. Stamm

Mrs. Stamm is a fun-loving, passionate, nurturing music teacher and loves working with the students and staff at Magsig Middle School. She earned her undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Dayton. One of Mrs. Stamm's passions is musical theatre and she shares that with both Magsig and Centerville High School. She has worked on numerous productions at CHS and has even received numerous DayTony Awards recognizing her work with high school musicals (You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - 2008 ; Lucky Stiff- 2009; 42nd Street- 2010; All Shook Up - 2010; 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - 2013; West Side Story - 2015; The Addams Family - 2016; Anything Goes - 2017; Bonnie & Clyde- 2017; Legally Blonde 2018 ). In 2019 The DayTonys shifted focused and rebranded as the Miami Valley High School Theatre Awards. In 2019, both productions Mrs. Stamm worked with, Into the Woods and Fiddler on the Roof, received numerous awards including the highest honor- Outstanding Production of a Musical.

Mrs. Stamm lives in Centerville with her husband and two children. Her favorite candy is a York Peppermint Patty and her favorite color is red.

About the Ducks:

• Once upon a time, Mrs. Stamm was in high school in Toledo, Ohio. There she participated in the extra-curricular activity Speech/Debate Team. Her speech coach, Mrs. Sanders, knew that Mrs. Stamm sometimes got really nervous when giving her speech. Mrs. Sanders wisely told her about the connection of performer to ducks:
  • "The performer should be like the duck- calm and cool on the surface, but paddling like crazy underneath."
• Mrs. Stamm took the phrase to heart and ended up doing well in Speech/Debate, even making it to the State tournament her senior year of high school. When she graduated, Mrs. Sanders gave all the seniors a duck to remember their time on speech team. When Mrs. Stamm started working at Magsig, she brought what was a small handful of ducks to her classroom, to remember the lessons that Mrs. Sanders taught. That collection has now bloomed into over 300 ducks in about 10 years, many of them gifts from students. Mrs. Stamm also likes to travel and will bring a rubber duck back from various locations if possible.

E-mail Mrs. Stamm: melissa.stamm@centerville.k12.oh.us