John L. Irvin, Jr.:  

Life Still working on this. School Rough Draft. My schooling was broken into four parts: preschool at First Presbyterian, elementary school at Irving Park, and middle school and high school at Greensboro Day. I meet a lot of my lifelong friends and acquaintances in preschool. It was an eclectic bunch of kids that grew into a varied, successful group of men and women. I learned some of life’s important lessons there; things that would carry through for the rest of my life. For example, there’s a Ringmaster in all the venues of your life, someone who, through pure force of personality, dominates the room, the story, the interchange. If you’re lucky, these people do this with humor, grace and sincerity. I was lucky enough to meet one there who ran the Ring with humor (if not always with kindness). If you can’t be the Ringmaster, find a good one and enjoy the ride. If you find a bad one… RUN! If you can’t tell the difference… You’re Screwed. Many of the group I went to preschool with ended up at Irving Park with me; however, I met a lot of great new ones too. It was a more innocent time when walking to-and-from school was not seen as dangerous. And it was a time when teacher’s shared the words and pictures of fantasies such as “Where the Wild Things Are” rather than indoc...Expand for more