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Advice to Parents Considering Hyde School
Anonymous:
The two strands -- gravedigging and memorial stones -- come together in Michelle. Back in '74, Michelle and a few Hyde friends went on a joyride that went terribly wrong: the brakes of the car gave out while she was roaring down Highway 1 and she threw the car into reverse to bring it to a grinding halt. The group was taken back to Hyde and told to start digging 6x2x6 foot pits. Michelle is thus the only Hyde student who both dug her own grave and was honored with a memorial stone.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Full circle" ---The two strands -- gravedigging and memorial stones -- come together in Michelle. Back in '74, Michelle and a few Hyde friends went on a joyride that went terribly wrong: the brakes of the car gave out while she was roaring down Highway 1 and she threw the car into reverse to bring it to a grinding halt. The group was taken back to Hyde and told to start digging 6x2x6 foot pits. Michelle is thus the only Hyde student who both dug her own grave and was honored with a memorial stone.
--- End quote ---
The thing about Michelle and the stone is that she was Joe's/Hyde's big success story. She was a wild child. When she starred as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" she did not have to act to throw those tantrums. Joe saw him self and the hyde process in the role of Anne Sullivan. The Irony was that Michelle was at deep level unchanged by the experience. She was troubled for the rest of her life and died in, "not a good place." So Hyde has set a memorial stone to one it's most spectacular failures. The other queer thing is that that stone is so close to Blanche's stone. They were both woman on the short side, slender, dark complected, long black hair and lived right in Joe's blind spot. If anyone from back then reads this and it hurts your feelings I am sorry but it is the truth. and you know what JC said about the truth. Free yourself baby.
Go in peace
Fr Tim
Anonymous:
Michelle was an amazing person and she acclimated herself very quickly at Hyde. She had many friends who loved her very much.
I knew her parents from the regional meetings. Gracious, charming hosts from the city’s most affluent suburb. Where were they in her hour of need? Hey, your daughter’s living in a Boston slum! Hey, your daughter’s husband is beating the shit out of her again! Hey, your daughter’s shooting up again! Hey, your daughter wants to be a dancer at the age of forty-two! Hey, your daughter’s committing suicide!
Why did Michelle die?
Because family-based character education does not address real family dysfunction.
Because between the ages of fourteen and twenty Michelle lived in a highly structured environment. Then she was released into the world and was unable to make the right choices.
Ursus:
There is a brief shot of Michelle's stone in this...er..."enthusiastic" YouTube clip:
Hyde Homecoming Reunion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGj-p6jK87w
Fall 2008 montage of Hyde's Homecoming/Reunion Weekend[/list]
I liked the cardboard mock-up of Joe, though...somehow it doesn't look a whole lot like him here:
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "FC" ---Michelle was an amazing person and she acclimated herself very quickly at Hyde. She had many friends who loved her very much.
I knew her parents from the regional meetings. Gracious, charming hosts from the city’s most affluent suburb. Where were they in her hour of need? Hey, your daughter’s living in a Boston slum! Hey, your daughter’s husband is beating the shit out of her again! Hey, your daughter’s shooting up again! Hey, your daughter wants to be a dancer at the age of forty-two! Hey, your daughter’s committing suicide!
Why did Michelle die?
Because family-based character education does not address real family dysfunction.
Because between the ages of fourteen and twenty Michelle lived in a highly structured environment. Then she was released into the world and was unable to make the right choices.
--- End quote ---
Hyde gave her an identity that she could not care into the real world. When the stone was dedicated a group sang "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne and changed the lyrics from
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But youll never know
to
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
Will lie a reason you were alive
And youl've got to know know.
While I am not a fan of Mr Browne's lachrymose navel gazing I would have to say that it really distorts the notion that we pass our passion and love for live from generation to generation, and if there is a time when your place in that dance has some special significance you will probably never know it. The wisdom of God surpasses the ability of Man to understand it ... except at Hyde. At Hyde you have to know it. Of course Hyde is the place that quotes Jesus without attribution and appends cute little tag phrases. I hope that make you miserable Joe.
Via con Dios
Fr Tim
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