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Graduation Stats
Anonymous:
Funny, we have very different memories: I don't recall the periodic "lists," "purges," and dishonorable discharges. Sabina left early, but for altogether different reasons. What I remember is a vote among seniors and faculty on whether each of us would be graduating with a diploma or with a certificate and the option of coming back for another try at the diploma. It is with great pride that I am able to say that I received an overwhelming vote of no confidence. I took the certificate, which sufficed for college matriculation, and booked. I knew intuitively that Hyde was all wrong, just as I know it intellectually now.
Gentlemen, I doubt I've anything more of substance to add. I've sorted Hyde out to my own satisfaction, and my Dylanesque flight the other day was the death blow, as far as I'm concerned. I've written in anger, and now I write in tranquillity. Emil, I plan one day to ask you to sneak into Hyde with me, assuming our status as personae non gratae is by now assured, and then go pay a visit to Ed. If you need time off from being a rural gentleman, you are most welcome to visit me in this crazy Holy City of mine.
Shalom.
Ursus:
I was told there was a list. I did not actually see this list myself. Perhaps I was told this by someone on the faculty who wished to intimidate me. Perhaps there were actually far fewer people involved and I was lied to. Certainly this would not be a first for Hyde. It seems to be their preferred modus operandi.
There were however, many purges at Hyde overall, usually comprising of far fewer people than that particular time. I did not even come up with that term. Someone else on the forum here used it. And they often occurred not long before graduation. Whoever posted that first post today was right on the money.
And there were other times when there were many many students under "question." Joe himself actually details one of these times in which, according to him, "of the 117 students at Hyde, 102 were at least indirectly involved." These were offenses against Hyde's "no smoking, drinking, or drugs" rules. I am guessing that the "indirect involvement" could be construed to mean that you knew someone who did one of these venal acts, but were not guilty of it yourself. This was back in 1970, and it happened sometime after Spring Break but at least a month before the end of the school year.
Ursus:
One more thing, Mike: You were not one of the kids who "left early." How would you know what their circumstances were and what they or their parents were told? What happened to those kids and what the school actually told us about their leaving were, more often than not, stories barely recognizable as describing the same events.
The "official word" from Hyde was always whatever made Hyde look the best, whether or not it was the truth was but accidental in some cases. The Hyde spin was always just another opportunity for more propaganda. "See what will happen to you if you don't suck it up... So and so has chosen the easy way out and is not dealing with his/her issues with courage and integrity." Which would always be followed by the usual "If you can't make it at Hyde, you can't make it anywhere."
How many times have you come across something in your life that Hyde taught you to interpret a certain way, and the reality differs egregiously? And it's not even in the same ballpark. Think about it.
Anonymous:
I know of two kid that were asked to leave in '77. Both kid were asked to leave by Henry Milton. This is according to their own word.
In Hyde's defense I would have to say they were correct in not offering me a diploma. With that said, at the end of the experience I was no where I needed to be. The ink blot test of how much that was me not being willing to change and how much of that was Hyde's inept formulaic approach to every kid I will not take. (Honestly it looks like a woman with a bong with really large breasts but I would rather not say that.)
Mike,
The kids are out of the house .... mostly , we have a guest suite and you are welcome. I have house rules: no drinking, no drugs ( a rule which my kids discreetly violate) and you can only smoke hand rolled cigars on the porch if you brink enough to share.
I would love to go to Israel some time but I am afraid I will be dead before I pay off my kids college loans.
Peace back at you man
Anonymous:
I think a lot gets made out of that process being a vote. The thing you have to ask your self: how hard is that to fix? How hard do you think it was for Joe and Ed to dial the number of graduates? A few special talks. A straw list. These guys are/were masters with adults. They were manipulating brain washed kids.
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