High School for the Performing and Visual Arts - Images Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Stevie and the Gang by Gerald Gilmore, II We were all pretty dirty, I guess. I had mud on my shirt and tennis, and my mom told me that when I got dirt on my tennis then I was a dirty boy and I shouldn't come in the house. So now I had mud on my shirt too, so did all the other guys. We were all dirty. The bell had lust ranged for us to come back to class from recess, but we didn't want to go back in there with Miss Harp 'cause we knew she was gonna make us sit down and couldn't say nothing. Stevie Schulcowski was the toughest guy in class, and he met all the guys at the door into the school and gathered us all together in a football huddle and told us that he wasn't gonna go back in to Miss Harp's and how many of us was with him. Then everybody looked around at everybody else so Bobby Goldstein, the second toughest, said that he wasn't going either, then he asked us who was with him. A few others of the guys said that they were with him and then I did and finally we all decided that we wasn't going back. Then we all raised our heads - I was glad too 'cause I was get- ting a crook in my neck from looking at Stevie. s We all started to run to the playground but Stevie yelled out that we had to tell Miss Harp face-to- face that we wasn't coming back or else we wouldn't be his friends. Everybody stipped running and we all looked back at Stevie standing there. Then I yelled back if we really had to do that and how come we couldn't iust play. He said that we had to do it, but he would lead us. I felt like I could ask him that 'cause sometimes he called me his right-hand man with his hand on my shoulder. Some- times he called me his co-pilot - I was glad I could talk to him. We all walked back to him and huddled again. Stevie was next to me in the huddle and put his arm across my back and across the back of the guy on the other side. He spoke in a husky voice that he always used when he was being tough. Stevie told us that none of had to say nothing, and he would do all the talking. We were iust