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Requesting Parents' Assessment of Hyde School
Anonymous:
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--- Quote ---...I wanted to bust his knee caps that whole day.
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Interesting comment, in that I really do remember Joe's kneecaps most especially. Perhaps that's because they were where my eyes were focused on during so many of a school meeting at the mansion...
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School meeting at the mansion? When were you at hyde? There where too many of us to fit in the stairway when I was there mid seventies.
Ursus:
We used to have meetings on the stairs (early/mid 70's). Joe would stand somewhere between the library (still? anyway, the room with the huge oak table which I am sure can not be removed) and that front room which was opposite the headmaster's office. He basically stood in what was an entry hallway. In front of him was open area, leading to the dining room (the kitchen was still at the mansion). On either side of this open area were the stairs leading up on either side to the 2nd floor. Students would amass in the open area and sitting on the stairs.
BTW, I do believe I saw Cool Hand Luke here in this open space. Maybe that was the summer.
Either my 2nd or 3rd year, enough progress had been made on the Student Union and school meetings (as well as dining arrangements) moved down there.
Anonymous:
I was at Hyde Woodstock in the late 90's. I remember Joe standing their in his golf uniform going around the room trying to humiliate the students and parents. He would set us up. Ask questions wait for someone to be bold enough to answer him and then lay into the person in the most nasty way. It made me feel so badly for the person he would lash out at. It was as though he thought he was G-d and everyone else in the room was inferior to him.
Ursus:
That setting-up phenomenom was pretty standard. It got so that you pretty much knew when NOT to venture an answer to his questionings, as he had a way about him when he was primed for blood. Of course, I am sure if Laura Denton (Gauld) ventured an answer his response would be most muted. Come to think of it, I don't think even she ventured an answer when he was in one of those moods...
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---We used to have meetings on the stairs (early/mid 70's). Joe would stand somewhere between the library (still? anyway, the room with the huge oak table which I am sure can not be removed) and that front room which was opposite the headmaster's office. He basically stood in what was an entry hallway. In front of him was open area, leading to the dining room (the kitchen was still at the mansion). On either side of this open area were the stairs leading up on either side to the 2nd floor. Students would amass in the open area and sitting on the stairs.
BTW, I do believe I saw Cool Hand Luke here in this open space. Maybe that was the summer.
Either my 2nd or 3rd year, enough progress had been made on the Student Union and school meetings (as well as dining arrangements) moved down there.
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Hey,
If you think that oak table is still there, you were gone by '75. Phil and his buddy lit a fire under the table in summer school '75.
I met Phil B. I knew he was crazy. I don't know how the Hyde staff missed it. I was told that they screen now. I have also been told that that is a lie. I hear Hyde is admitting bi-polar kids and weening them off their meds. They are damn lucky it has been 30+ years since some one has seriously endangered the other students.
Emil
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