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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Emil Nightrate,

With a name like that, we must have been friends. I remember that "The Book" was Joe Gauld's baby and "America's Spirit" was Ed Legg's creation, joint with Sumner Hawley and Bud Warren, which they then took on the road. Those were obviously more hopeful times.

This division of Joe Gauld on the one hand and Legg, Hawley, and Warren on the other exactly coincides with the one I mentioned earlier between abuser and nonabuser. To the other poster who mentioned that psychological and verbal abuse were condoned, I can testify that I saw not three feet from where I was standing Joe Gauld smack around a girl hard enough to send her glasses flying to the other end of the corridor, and then chase her, screaming and crying, out of the Student Union to some unspecified punishment, because he didn't like the way she had returned his greeting! Hyde lost me then. I determined to stay out of trouble, but at the same time to shut my heart against the faculty and student leadership. For two years and a summer I held myself severely aloof from all but the three faculty members I mentioned.

Warren, Legg, and others quit as a result of disagreements that arose with Joe Gauld during my time at Hyde and shortly thereafter. As far as I'm concerned, Gauld purged Hyde of its better, more humane element, who I suspect called his abusiveness into question. And look who Gauld then gathered around him and elevated to headmaster: other abusers, Ken Grant and Paul Hurd. Under such a succession, is it any wonder that the ideals of the seventies -- "The Book," "America's Spirit," "character education," and educational reform -- are ancient history?
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  I have heard those stories.  I never saw physical abuse.  I saw verbal abuse,  I recall Joe screaming at and spitting on the student body.   I never sat in the first row, so I did not get wet.
 It is very disappointing that there is no connection between the present incarnation of Hyde and the more humane element from the early days.   They were all purged when Joe came back.   Larry Pray , who was actually an ordained minister, was a real bright spot in contrast to folks that seemed to have a prediliction to drive an index finger into your collar bone or delight in being the task master of the redundent movement of wood. His brother Doug is making movies.
 Joe's mecurial temper reminded me of my father's.  Having been abused as a child, I had no desire to repeat the experiance as a teenager so a steered a wide course around Joe. Joe is a problematic figure.  Hyde was his baby. Hyde foundered without him, yet he seems to keep planting his foot foursquare in the dog shit. He is screaming at people in DC, he is locking horns with parents that end up taking the school to court ....  

Emil Nightrate

Anonymous:
Yes, Larry and his wife, Connie, believed in being civilized...  Anyone remember Richard Klein?  I think that was his name...  He married his sweetheart, Ellen, and I heard they left shortly after that... some disagreement with the school over extreme philosophies, I was told; perhaps just a difference of opinion...

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Yes, Larry and his wife, Connie, believed in being civilized...  Anyone remember Richard Klein?  I think that was his name...  He married his sweetheart, Ellen, and I heard they left shortly after that... some disagreement with the school over extreme philosophies, I was told; perhaps just a difference of opinion...
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  He could drive a school bus.  Ellen sent a boy off to the mens room so the  biology class could look at sperm on a slide.  I made her laugh by defining asexual reproduction as "like sexual reproduction except not as much fun" on an exam.  She did mark it as in correct.

Emil

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Yes, Larry and his wife, Connie, believed in being civilized...  Anyone remember Richard Klein?  I think that was his name...  He married his sweetheart, Ellen, and I heard they left shortly after that... some disagreement with the school over extreme philosophies, I was told; perhaps just a difference of opinion...
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  He could drive a school bus.  Ellen sent a boy off to the mens room so the  biology class could look at sperm on a slide.  I made her laugh by defining asexual reproduction as "like sexual reproduction except not as much fun" on an exam.  She did mark it as in correct.

Emil
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 :rofl:   That would be her sense of humor!  [Something the school seems to lack in the long run big time!]

Anonymous:
Dick and Ellen Klain...

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