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You’re in the army now!

I arrived at Patterson in September 1960 with a foot locker full of new clothes and bewilderment about why I was here. I was a sophomore and just beginning to get used to high school life at home when my mother decided that I needed to go away to a boys school. This was the beginning of some good times but also some bad.

For whom the bell tolls

In the Spring of 1971 Patterson won the Basketball Championship on a Friday night, and we were told by our illustrious Headmaster Rev. Floyd Finch, that we could all sleep in the next morning, no SCHOOL!