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Anonymous:
What were some of the "official reasons" given for students leaving? Not just graduation, but earlier in the school year as well?
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---What were some of the "official reasons" given for students leaving? Not just graduation, but earlier in the school year as well?
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One was a guy named Randy. He was officially a run away. He was a Mainah. I ran into him he told me a story about not wanting to go to college and refusing to sign up for the military. I guess at that point in 77 you had to go into the military or college. Henry told him he had to do one of the three: sign up, get excepted to a college or leave. This was close to grduation. The other was a guy named Peter. this is the peter you probably think of when you think of a guy name Peter at hyde in 77. The story was a little different. I would have to say that I am pretty sure he was high at the time. He asked me if I wanted to snort some crushed percocets. I declined his gracious offer. The bottom line was the same: Henry told him to get his ass out of Dodge. So it is believable that people were asked to go. They were kids that in the current hyde parlance were "offtrack" so it would look like they were running away. I have also been in contact with a guy that was gone before I got to Hyde named Walter who spun a similar tale. I found his story to be believable.
Anonymous:
It was the talk about plagiarisms.
I will explain. I was in Springfield the day after a dead concert. I was hitchhiking with my girl friend. It was an election year. Silvio Conte was running for re election. This was '80 I think. So I saw this Silvio sign and started singing:
"Silvio, silver and gold." over and over. It got on my girl friend nerve. she said "Silvio what!"
I sang: "Silvio, Silver and gold won't by back the beat of a heart grown cold. " I eventually worked out the rest of the chorus that is in the Hunter/Dylan version and a couple of the verses. The Hunter Dylan version has added verses that I did not write. The one I did write that they used verbatum it:
One of these days and it won't be long I going down to the valley and sing my song,
I gonna sing out loud
I gonna sing out strong
Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong.
I used to sing it around harvard square.
I had a couple of other odds and ends borrowed from me. I remember have some guy ask me if he could use my stuff. I quoted the woodie Guthrie copy write.
It was just really a shock when after I left that life behind and was straight and had two kids to hear it on the radio sung by Bob Dylan backed by the GD. It was a rush.
So the notion of Paul stealing from Malcolm ... please.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---It was the talk about plagiarisms.
I will explain. I was in Springfield the day after a dead concert. I was hitchhiking with my girl friend. It was an election year. Silvio Conte was running for re election. This was '80 I think. So I saw this Silvio sign and started singing:
"Silvio, silver and gold." over and over. It got on my girl friend nerve. she said "Silvio what!"
I sang: "Silvio, Silver and gold won't by back the beat of a heart grown cold. " I eventually worked out the rest of the chorus that is in the Hunter/Dylan version and a couple of the verses. The Hunter Dylan version has added verses that I did not write. The one I did write that they used verbatum it:
One of these days and it won't be long I going down to the valley and sing my song,
I gonna sing out loud
I gonna sing out strong
Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong.
I used to sing it around harvard square.
I had a couple of other odds and ends borrowed from me. I remember have some guy ask me if he could use my stuff. I quoted the woodie Guthrie copy write.
It was just really a shock when after I left that life behind and was straight and had two kids to hear it on the radio sung by Bob Dylan backed by the GD. It was a rush.
So the notion of Paul stealing from Malcolm ... please.
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In case this post makes absolutely no sense to anyone, I do believe "Guest" meant to insert it in the thread he was active in yesterday, namely here:
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?t=23309&start=151
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Harvard Sq Busquer"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---What were some of the "official reasons" given for students leaving? Not just graduation, but earlier in the school year as well?
--- End quote ---
One was a guy named Randy. He was officially a run away. He was a Mainah. I ran into him he told me a story about not wanting to go to college and refusing to sign up for the military. I guess at that point in 77 you had to go into the military or college. Henry told him he had to do one of the three: sign up, get excepted to a college or leave. This was close to grduation. The other was a guy named Peter. this is the peter you probably think of when you think of a guy name Peter at hyde in 77. The story was a little different. I would have to say that I am pretty sure he was high at the time. He asked me if I wanted to snort some crushed percocets. I declined his gracious offer. The bottom line was the same: Henry told him to get his ass out of Dodge. So it is believable that people were asked to go. They were kids that in the current hyde parlance were "offtrack" so it would look like they were running away. I have also been in contact with a guy that was gone before I got to Hyde named Walter who spun a similar tale. I found his story to be believable.
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If you are talking about Peter T, he absolutely hated Hyde and was pretty cynical about any adult hypocrisy, but was basically a decent kid. I also have to wonder about Henry's interest in him.
Somehow I cannot picture Peter M with the crushed percocets and he may have been there earlier; Peter M also had a sister who went, Heidi. Never heard what happened to either one of them, they were kind of quiet and kept to themselves. Maybe they even graduated and I just don't remember! lol
Did Walter usually go by a different name? Never heard what actually happened to him, if we're talking about the same person. I thought he took the credits accrued and just never came back.
I remember a girl named Donna A, who I had always assumed was one of Hyde's darlings since she was pretty gung-ho about Hyde and Sumner really liked her (she played Blanche in the school play A Streetcar Named Desire, amongst other leads in other plays), but one day she disappeared and the official word was she "ran away." Not long afterwards, I ran into her on the road between the New Dorms and the Outhouse; tears were streaming down her face as she had just talked to some faculty member about her returning/staying. She said that she couldn't talk to me about it. I had always assumed that she really wanted to be there. But it seemed as if there were some "difficulties." And then she was gone.
Yeah, I do remember a lot of people officially designated as "runaways" and ones who never came back from a period of time at home, be that the end of the year or mid-term such as Christmas or Spring Break, etc. It was always portrayed as "their decision," like they made that choice on their own sans Hyde's stipulations. But this is what Hyde told us. I don't remember many of these kids telling me themselves what the reason was, at least not while they were there.
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