History

Updated August 3, 2003
I couldn't wait to be done with high school. But there were a couple of things that had to be worked through first.

I wasn't one of the most dedicated students. I wasn't stupid but I was an "under achiever" of sorts. That was not to say I was academically challenged, just that I wasn't very dedicated to those things the "smart kids" were supposed to be involved with.

None the less, I did reach some of the standards that are supposed to indicate academic excellence. I received a National Merit Letter of Commendation and was a semi-finalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program for Negro Students. In my senior year I had a 1400 composite SAT score and was a New York State Regents Scholar. I won the Westchester Chapter of the American Institute of Architects annual scholarship award for1968.

That was the upside. The downside? I felt in the wisdom of my youth that most of high school was a waste of time. I failed three classes during part of my senior year although I only failed one class at the end of the year. That was English. Let's put this in perspective though. My SAT verbal score was 732 and my English Achievement Test score was 660. I was more than merely competent with both structure and composition. I don't wish to blame anyone else for my low performance in the class but my Senior English teacher and I didn't see eye to eye on what constituted proper class participation. I had to attend summer school English to get my diploma and start college in September like everybody else.

So where did I go to College? Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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