[swampfox98]

as the lone Protestant in a Catholic Prep School

I won't ask why, but why? If your parents made you do it they should be made to pay you reparations. Actually, many kids in public school suffer the same type of ostracism, and it sure isn't fun.

[Little Bill]

My father died when I was about high school age and I was exiled to Mass, my Mother who is a Staunch Irish Catholic, my personal faith is a compromise between parents, took one look at the Mass Government School system and was horrified, remember this is 1960.

Ma, who knew or was related to a lot of movers in the Archdiocese, though for the good of my mind and soul, that I should get a classical education, thus St Johns. It was not so much that I was ostracized is that I did not fit.

My family had been out West for about a hundred and twenty years at the time had developed certain political ideas that didn't fit in Mass at that time or this. That and my disgust at the lack of thinking and sycophancy of my classmates caused some problems, largely of my own making.