Gershon Cohen, coach of the Haines High School Drama, Debate and Forensics team, flew to the Marshall Islands last month to help develop debate programs in that South Pacific country.
“This is halfway between Hawaii and Australia,” Cohen said. “It’s one of the smallest specks of land in the world, really.”
His Haines team last February earned a third-place finish in 3A at the state competition in Anchorage.
When the Marshallese Ministry of Education was…