It was always a big day in the life of the community when a bunch of kids and staff packed up in the bus and headed off to the Buckbrook campus in New York. And what better time to raise the school salute in a display of fraternal unity. Number one, baby, we're number one!

I never did get a handle on what that Church of the Brotherhood business was all about. There were stories circulating that as a charismatic kid, George  had become an ordained minister and did the tent revival circuit in rural central Florida. And indeed he did run around wearing a clerical collar, but this was not a very churchy place. Not by a long shot.