Wayman Earls III:  

ns and even fewer friends that I had, I have to say that I had a great respect and admiration of Mr. Gary Davis. He had a great understanding of Afrikan history and was the one who told me that Afrikan history was "actually the missing pages of WORLD history". If I could do it all over again, I would have tried to take AP courses in middle school, so that I could go from 8th grade straight to college. Of course, I was so depressed and withdrawn that my grades were atrocious. Maybe that wouldn't have worked. Hindsight being 20/20, however... I think my best memories would be everytime I put on that purple, gold and white uniform, slipped my mouthpiece into that baritone horn and marched my butt out there on Memorial Field. Marching Band (and of course, Mr. Acox's barking orders) made all the insanity in my adolescent life seem bearable. College Hell, pure hell. Especially since I decided to finish up the last year and a half with a wife and two girls. I must have been crazy. Or maybe I felt life wasn't presenting much of a challenge. The truth's probably somewhere in between. Well, in any case I'll have a degree soon and get my butt in the classroom. I'm looking forward to teaching history sooooooo bad. That's assuming I can find work with the school district being 35 million in the hole. Wherever I end up, it's gonna be crazy...