The prefect candidate?
This blogger found presidential candidate Howard Dean’s high school yearbook entry from his senior year at St. George’s Preparatory Academy in Newport, Rhode Island:
Howard Brush Dean, III
Honor roll ’65; President, Library Committee; Business Manager Red and White ’65-’66; Track ’63-’66; Wrestling ’65-’66; Football ’64-’65; Council ’64-’66; Prefect.
From the outside looking in, I am: A Prefect making a thousand announcements in assembly, a dorm prefect with a big stick, a big brother talking to Deacon or Benny, a solid conservative defending the powers of Student Council and lashing out at cynics and opponents, a business manager arguing with his editor, and a frequent occupant of the weight room. I can’t see anything in perspective, I only live for the moment. I take each individual thing that comes along as the most important thing that ever happened: form elections, football games, grades, hell week, everything is in crisis. Some people tell me I shouldn’t take things so seriously. St. George’s has taught me in four years to respect A. Lincoln’s saying that, ‘you can’t please all of the people all of the time.’ I tried for three years, and realized in my fourth that he was right (I’m stubborn, that’s why it took so long). Forget about the people you can’t please; hang around with the ones you like. If you want to find out how everyone else sees me, read the top paragraph again. If you’re the curious type who can put up with a temper, join the few who know me as I know me — from the inside looking out.