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' HE'S PRETTY SCARY. That Christmas vacation of ', we were in the Gravesend gym for hours every day; we were alone, and undisturbed-all the boarders had g Rows upon rows of chairs, and the benches from The Great Hall, were spread out across the lawn-I would estimate that there was seating for five hundred people. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand U.