“In grades one to eight, we never had sports. It was all academic and stuff. We didn’t have a gym and stuff like that, but then when I came here, all of a sudden, we had a gym. We could play volleyball and basketball. Of course, we played hockey all the time.”


“That big fence they had was about eight feet high all around. It was our boundary line. It is now a treeline – you could not go past it. It was the boundary line for the school. It was to keep us in our own place. If you wanted to meet the girls, you had another boundary line, an imaginary one – you were not allowed to pass it, the imaginary line.”


“Besides the fact that the food was good, most of us never went home. We stayed Christmas, summer. I only went home one summer. In 1967, I finally went home for a while, maybe a month, and then I came back. I couldn’t stand it.”


“They had lots of things going on. I think they kept us doing a lot of stuff. We had cadets. In the summertime, we had that. Every week we had something to do. We had camping. We didn’t get isolated. We had things to do outside.”


“Sometimes, we’d go clean up for these millionaires here, and rake leaves and stuff like that. And then sometimes we’d go shovel snow from walks. When we had that big storm in 1966, one of the big, big blizzards we had, I made a lot of money on that thing. I got brand new skates out of it, my own brand new skates.”