myths, legends, lies and rumors

I believe the entrance got walled up. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

The tunnel is still there, as is the old Jr. school locker room under the gym. The entrance to the tunnel is gated off, but a view down the tunnel is still available.

The bowling alley was under the faculty apts that used to be attached to the Jr. school gym. The balcony, to the apt and also where the barber shop use to be located, was the roof to the bowling alley. It was one lane and had to be manually set.

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Jess "La Nez" Waters

Anyone seen/heard from/about Skee Chinn? Matt? Taxi?

Jess

That was Corbin - he committed suicide. As I recall the year book had a "dedication" to him.

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Location: West Chester, Pa.
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: rumors

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Bravo 2nd was my platoon and I was their squad leader, only one(Ed Sholte) was expelled for refusing a urine test. The cadet that stabbed the portrait was Gary Munn 87 who was a platoon leader 2nd bravo while on guard duty, Major Spencer did all types of tricks during sociology class but I dont remember the spoons

Unless another portrait has been stabbed, that portrait had that stab mark in it in 1976. The rumor at the time was that a cadet stabbed it when he thought it moved. Easy to believe as all those portraits were painted such that the eyes always seemed to follow you no matter where you were in the room.

Anybody remember the guy that made cyanide in the chem lab and killed himself? The rumor about that I remember was that the guy diluted it and was really trying to get high. I was in Jr. School at the time and it was an Upper School cadet.

Oh, and those tunnels ya'll are talking about do exist. There used to be a big gate in front of them at the lockers in the Jr. School gym's locker room. I think that gym is either gone now or has been extensively renovated. Good thing as I'm sure the Jr. School cadets got tired of all the asbestos on the pipes.

Anybody remember the guy who went AWOL and got chased by a bull in some farmer's field. That one's not a rumor though I did hear he got chased back onto the campus property line. :D

Dave wood became CO when JArett voluntarily stepped down from the post because he got stuck for having civlian clothes in his footlocker (something like 20 demerits). He didnt like the job I dont think.. ANd we were a bunch of crazies early on in the year when larder, weneta and pat hoffman were our squad leaders.

Wood was an easy going CO.. THey both were really!!

Hey Bravo 1st platoon section here
i would have guessed that tavares, hicks, Byron "skee" chinn and ford were involved in that whole "getting kicked out" the year after I left.
and the guy who graduated with me, trey hein.
There was some serious dysfucntion going on in that company. Made for some serious comedy

we called our company commander "MOM". that was WOOD DR. at least phil ford did.

"Sir, can I look straight too."

anyways, later

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I just graduated and i know for a fact the tunnels exist...my friends and i spent quite the time down there...its a little creapy and they are only about 5 feet tall so the hurt your back if your there too long. they run from the middle school gym to the room under what is now friskis room on the back side of hatcher...from there they can either go down to the boiler/laundry room, or up under the chappel to snead then it turns into the snead basement, then they run from under bravo over to the comandants then on to memorial...best way to get around after taps without getting caught...did it many a nights

I was also on bravo 3rd for three years and if your looking for the "best" platoon in the core thats it...never a dull moment, i saw quite a few kicked out in my day with questionable circumstances

This was a "Junior School" faculty member that I am speaking about. It happened during the late 70's or maybe as recent as the early 80's.

When people look like ants ,it's time to pull your parachute.
When ants look like people ,you are too late.

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Rumor has it that Capt. Stephen "Strangers In The Night" C. Smith was sent to prison. My source was very reliable , but would not elaborate. Couldn't have happened to a better guy. Anyone have details? Email me.

Why tiptoe through life just to arrive safely at death?
Blue Skies

Dora Bounds had to do quite a bit of tweaking with the yearbook that year. Wasn't that the year the entire front row of the prep football team held their hands in a kind of stupid position that for---whatever the reason---was all the rage in 87-88? (No it wasn't the middle finger, it was this really stupid game of holding your thumb and index finger in a circle and saying "MADE YOU LOOK"). Anyways---I think they had to cut hat picture off at the knees. A couple of guys in Band company tried to be clever and wrote "I Phelta Thi" on their senior casual picture and I know that also got creatively edited out. Wasn't 1988 the year a rather large fellow (I mean HUGE) who was a platoon leader in Charlie Company decided to go take a dunk in the fountain the night before graduation and got to spend his last night on ED and graduate a private? Poor guy didn't listen to Col. Pulliam's final night "Don't do anything that would be detrimental to your final few days at FUMA" speech. 1988---You guys were troublemakers! Even though that was my junior year it was easily my happiest at FUMA---a truly great year. Probably had something to do with finally beating Woodberry--and then in the Spring Fleenor and his posse started "the streak" of track championships.

Now that is classic.

OK...got the names... or at least a couple... totaly forgat about that. Was that 88?... Now I'm going to have to go in my closet and pull out the old year books!

What was his obsession with making sure you were under your sheets/blanket?

Not sure if this is true, but my memory is not that good. But if this was during the 87-88 school year, I was the platoon Sgt for bravo company 3rd platoon (at least up to the last few weeks) and do not remember "several cadets" being kicked out. I do remember a "shake down", but was not involved in any meeting or remember anyone being dismissed. And never heard about the whole platoon being dismissed.
Sam - any idea where you heard this?
Nark/oceanrunner – do you know who they were? Would sure like to remember this!

I remember during my freshman and Sophomore years (when guard duty was held in Hatcher Hall) hearing rumors about an officer that was on duty who was doing his nightly rounds when he saw the portrait of Dr. Snead start talking (or something like that) and he cut the portrait with his saber, but I also remember looking at the portrait and do not remember seeing any signs of it being cut. But I did everything I could (including paying off other NCOs) to take my guard duty...

If my bad memory is not as bad as I think it is... I also heard that Major Spencer could "float" down the alls during CQ, but don't remember the hearing about the bending of spoons.

Did not hear the one about Major Straughan and never saw or knew about any tunnels... wish I had!