THE SEVEN CARET RING Mrs. G had to drop out of school to
get married when she was sixteen. They say she was very beautiful, but
wild. When she was twenty, she married again. Her new husband was over twice
her age, and some say he was a member of the Mafia. He lavished many gifts
on her including a full-length mink coat and a seven carat diamond ring.
After he died, Mrs. G went back to school to finish her education and
eventually taught at Wilbur Wright. She still liked to live it up, however,
and she was at every faculty party wearing her full length mink and her
seven carat ring. Once, on the way home from a party, she stopped to offer
help to some young men with apparent car problems. They robbed her of the
seven carat ring. She couldn't report the robbery to the police, because the
ring; her husband had given her had been acquired in the same way she lost
it. THE FRESHMAN ATHLETIC AWARD At the award assembly each year, a
trophy is given to the outstanding freshman athlete in the name of a man who
only taught at Wilbur Wright for two weeks. This young man's career ended
six weeks after he received his college diploma, four weeks after his
marriage, and two weeks after he taught his first class. He had just
finished coaching his first freshman football game, and all the teachers and
fans were walking away from the field. Only his wife, watching from the hill
overlooking the field saw what happened. He had instructed his team to run
wind sprints back and forth across the field before going for their showers.
A nineteen year old former student at Wilbur Wright who was retarded and had
never learned to read was standing in the way. The coach asked him several
times to move. When the former student refused, the young coach made the
fatal mistake of attempting to physically remove him from the field. 'When
the coach lifted the intruder from the ground to move him out of the way,
the young man wrapped his legs around the coach's waist, pulled a knife from
his back pocket, and reaching over the coach's shoulder, repeatedly plunged
the knife into his back. By the time teachers returned to help him, the
young coach was dying. His last words were, "Tell my wife I love her."- |