tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23936398.post6088105916650998053..comments2024-03-01T12:13:55.402+00:00Comments on 1963 Eastern Hills High School EHHS Highlanders: K. O. Vaughn & THE PADDLEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23936398.post-9968654447691820912012-01-14T19:01:31.020+00:002012-01-14T19:01:31.020+00:00You should have seen how the educators responded t...You should have seen how the educators responded to me when I returned to school <i><b>after</b></i> military service. I was paying my own way at this point and came to view both the instructors and administrators as "hired services." The Dean became very familiar with me as I made several trips to his office to "fire" one of my professors for inadequate performance, rather than suffer the bastard any longer than necessary. <br /><br />It was clearly a first time experience for them, but one for which they never discovered a legitimate defense so, I usually got my way. The last half of my schooling was much more productive than the first half. <br /><br />I used that same mind-set to help my eldest confront the University bureaucracy which resulted in a Summa Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma grad who was well known to all professors and administrators within the College of Business.<br /><br />Officious school people aggravated me at an early age.Gushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12743830912124085924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23936398.post-2292564796209854252012-01-14T18:38:46.754+00:002012-01-14T18:38:46.754+00:00Louis (#80) mentioned on FBook that both McBee &am...Louis (#80) mentioned on FBook that both McBee & Graves had nailed him, to which I responded….<i>I could be persuaded that there was a kind of "Doomsday Book" kept that assured that no lad made it completely through those institutions without being tapped...otherwise how would one explain how such well-behaved young gentlemen as ourselves felt the flame?</i> <br /><br />Your experience with Howerton seems to lend some credibility to my “Doomsday Book” postulation. The illustrations with this piece were published in some of the old Handley yearbooks, also one of my father’s Dallas yearbooks, and tend to illustrate the casual acquiescence the PADDLE had attained in our schools. As a member of the <i>recipient’s society</i> I can attest that there was nothing humorous or good-natured about it, no matter how the event was justified. Nor, of course, was there anything lasting or particularly harmful about it, either. However, toying with it as did Howerton and some of the others was improper, in my opinion. Furthermore, Howerton’s “lesson” stood in direct violation of <b><i>Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.</i></b><br /><br />But we were still too young and inexperienced to confidently confront situational authority...that would come later.Gushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12743830912124085924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23936398.post-17931960168789555372012-01-14T15:50:13.192+00:002012-01-14T15:50:13.192+00:00In March of my senior year, Coach Howerton asked m...In March of my senior year, Coach Howerton asked me if I had gotten any "licks" during the year. I said no. He said he was giving me two. I asked him why, as I hadn't done anything. He said "Yes, you have, you just didn't get caught." So, he gave me two licks.cjnoreply@blogger.com