I only attended Howe Summer Camp one year. I’d done so poorly in 9th and 10th grades at public school I needed to do some catching up before returning to Howe for 11th and 12th grades. The summer camp provides not only the usual summer camp fare but also – if needed and/or desired – summer school classes. I took English (I don’t know what the reason was besides Divine Providence) and Algebra.
In public school, I went from Algebra to Beginning Algebra to Remedial Math. Not long after beginning Algebra (which was – oddly enough – taught by the football coach … Howe technically still had a football team at that point though it was all but dead), I was asked to tutor other students. Later, in my junior year, I also did quite well in Geometry and Chemistry and was encouraged to take Physics. Physics is now one of my favorite subjects but back then it simply required too much (any at all) work to get an A.
I also received a medal for my work in English class but that’s a no-brainer … I’m really curious why I was in that class, now … it’s really bothering me. English was taught by Kevin Beuret.
Above is the nurse’s station run by the guy who got me the H.P. Lovecraft and Hal Lindsey books. I paid for them – he was just cool enough to score them for me at the local used book store.
A totally crass memory that always makes me smile is one night, after lights out … keep in mind we all slept in bunk beds … some kid said, nice and loud, “Why is the bed shaking?!” which I thought was a rather diplomatic way of saying to his bunkmate, “Hey, could you please quit …”
