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Hi, my name is Bruce Gill.
I went to lab school from 1960 to 1969.
I started out in first grade, and went through my freshman
year and my dad was the pricinpal here for every year I
went to school here.
At the time this was my only experience.
I had no idea how wonderful this place was until after I left it
and went to public school.
These years now that I look back I can smell death, so I mean
it's been--
They were the most magical times of my life, I've never ever been
happier nor have I appreciated anything
more than this experience.
I'm an educator myself and have been for the last 30 years.
Even doing my undergraduate, graduate, PhD. work, never have
I experienced any education like I got here.
This was the basis for everything I did, bar none.
When we needed to go do research, we would leave school
and go to the library and research.
We didn't have to sign out, we didn't have people telling us no
you can't go.
We were taught by professors here at this school most of them
had their PhD's.
So the quality of education that I got here was so outstanding
and I really had no idea what was happening until I left it.
That's why I'm back now, I lived here.
Dad being principal of this school, I was here more than
most of the other kids because I would leave
at 5 o' clock with him.
Mom couldn't get us; I would be at all the basketball games,
all the dances.
The fondest memories of my life are here.
At this time, I really miss it.
I really wish I could've gotten back here before they did all
this to it, because I got confused when I went upstairs
and couldn't find my way around.
I remember one time after P.E., we were all leaving the locker
rooms all lined up nice and orderly, as we were.
I was rubbing my hand up and down against the wall, and I
pulled the fire alarm.
Yes I did, and evacuated the whole school.
The university was all wondering what had happened, and the
principal's son pulled the fire alarm and got us all out of
class for the rest of the afternoon.
So that was one thing that stands out in my mind.
I didn't get in much trouble for that.
It wasn't intentional, so they think, but that's my story and
I'm sticking to it.
So yeah that was one of them.
There are just multitudes of them.
The one thing I think dad touched on was we didn't get our
9th grade dance because of those damn brown recluse spiders
underneath the swimming pool.
You went to school here all the time to get the 9th grade dance,
that was the big pay off at the end of your nine years going to
school here!
I never got it, therefore I've become an emotional
cripple, and I'm unable to function in society as a whole.
Besides that, it was a wonderful experience.
I'm glad I'm here, I'm glad I did this.
I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
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