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Anonymous:
After leaving Hyde, Ed Legg did development work (fundraising, planned giving, lobbying) for Ducks Unlimited and The Nature Conservancy.  He and Ann retired to Maine, where they became involved with the University of New England in Biddeford.  Ed served on the board for a time, then accepted the position of V.P. for Development. He recently re-retired.

I was a Hyde student in the late 70's-early 80's.

Anonymous:
gary...or mr. eskow...i haven't finished your article. i think i got throug hthe first two pages. i can tell there's a little bit of that fiery passion behind it, but it did not seem, so far, to contain the usual "hyde bashing". but i like the idea of giving the info over to someone who has no tie with the Hyde Schools in the sense to get as fair a perspective as possible. also, we have about 40 Hyde D.C. juniors up here to learn about the senior prep process and see how a hyde boarding school runs. i've also learned how different, and similar, the process can be in the two different environments. hearing from the charter school students is a definitely good idea (there are mixed views there as well as here). i went with 3 other seniors here, 3 of the d.c. kids, some faculty to go meet with some students and faculty from bath up in new hampshire. we talked about the change in the senior eval process as well as graduation (i.e. the grad. designations and speeches) and how we'd like to change it. i'll try to post more details about that later (i think some of you will be pleased with some of the changes most likely being made to senior evals). so yea, i think the whole giving-the-story-to-a-more-dispassionate-writer is a good idea. let us know how that goes. i also talked to some bath kids about this site, one came up to me and said "i've read some of your posts on fornits"...and we talked. we had some of the same ideas about this site and the majority of the posts on here. biggest agreement: more respect for those that just shared their stories in a non-bashing way. it was easier for us to see some of the things that went on at hyde without all the bitching behind the story. we both thought of the same post too: the "i lost my virginity at hyde" thread. we even reacted to it the same way after we had read it: we both emailed it to mr. bragg. idk where i'm going with this. i'll fill ya'll in on the meeting when i've got some time to sit down with the notes and doodles i made during this 4 hour meeting and write a post.
- Bill(y) Procida '07

ps....i finished the college process with 11/12 acceptances...graduation t-minus 61 days :)

gary eskow:
Billy--- feel free to address me in whatever manner you're comfortable.  Your continued postings on this site give you the opportunity to hone your powers of deductive reasoning, which, if they are ever to be sharp enough to compete in the market place of ideas with real players, must be dispassionate.

When you get past the first couple of pages of my paper, do let me know how you feel about it.  Your are in an interesting position to judge its veracity, since we seminared together during our overlapping time at Hyde.

Of course I'm bashing noone.  Candidly, however, I must say that in retrospect I find Joe Gauld's treatment of me- and others- and, more importantly, the failure of staff to address his transgressions openly, extremely disturbing.  Duncan McCrann behaved in a manner that was thoroughly unprofessional, and in my opinion, cowardly.  I refrain from indulging in wit for wit's sake and therefore will not refer to him as the "cravenly Mr. McCrann," though I find the phrase apt. I'm sure he has fine qualities as well.

Keep challenging those who, in your judgement, shoot from the hip on this site and attack only for the sake of striking out!  Who does that enterprise serve? I continue to be impressed with your impartiality... it takes courage to swim upstream- keep up the good work!

Gary Eskow

gary eskow:
Billy--- feel free to address me in whatever manner you're comfortable.  Your continued postings on this site give you the opportunity to hone your powers of deductive reasoning, which, if they are ever to be sharp enough to compete in the market place of ideas with real players, must be dispassionate.

When you get past the first couple of pages of my paper, do let me know how you feel about it.  Your are in an interesting position to judge its veracity, since we seminared together during our overlapping time at Hyde.

Of course I'm bashing noone.  Candidly, however, I must say that in retrospect I find Joe Gauld's treatment of me- and others- and, more importantly, the failure of staff to address his transgressions openly, extremely disturbing.  Duncan McCrann behaved in a manner that was thoroughly unprofessional, and in my opinion, cowardly.  I refrain from indulging in wit for wit's sake and therefore will not refer to him as the "cravenly Mr. McCrann," though I find the phrase apt. I'm sure he has fine qualities as well.

Keep challenging those who, in your judgement, shoot from the hip on this site and attack only for the sake of striking out!  Who does that enterprise serve? I continue to be impressed with your impartiality... it takes courage to swim upstream- keep up the good work!

Gary Eskow

Anonymous:
Billy, thanks for your post, but I am a bit disappointed that you have completely ignored the questions that were posed to you on other threads.  These were very sincere questions [posed directly to you, and yet you have ignored them.

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