So this is the famous hangout the place where a large high facts about Bob every
other school. This is this they get a command.
I don't know why I'm from what
but I tell me came from our relationship
break down by causing some of your company.
This is my cousin
and I haven't paid her for the time the way they would go to a file because I
wanted to meet interesting people because like this is just what I protect
Barat or boil or.
This is a nice site make even the home to the armband there from the high school
service without ringing doorbells were trying to boost United Fund of the top.
I got everyone on my blog sign up early this afternoon to spend your Saturday
working for the United fans. If it were anyone but you kids and lawyers.
I wouldn't believe it. That's pretty wonderful you know it.
Actually we had a lot of fun doing it.
I guess the town made get out of bed.
You know.
You've really got it here at large really got what maybe you think I'm kind of
corny but you've really got the right kind of school spirit going.
I wish the kids at West Point had a small idea of some of the things your sister.
What's wrong with the sport.
You've got here I can remember how you all came down even a football game.
Man I never saw so much spirit but got a sort of spirits
but here it's different.
Your school spirit seems to be working in everything you do it doesn't make any
difference if it's thoughts or debate a competition for a scholarship.
We know that Lawrence High is always going to be the hardest to beat
and every student body in the state feels the same way about a big school.
I can't be the reason you're always on top. So why are you guys it is hard to say.
But if you ask me I tape Corby had a lot to do with that start could be.
I don't remember about cause he was president as being your class at all save the
year we were freshmen that could be. But he's been here.
He's been gone from Lauren Child. He left his mom.
You know I can remember a little bit of what it was like before his time.
We had been what everybody thinks of the school spirit kept.
Here later and plenty of knowing.
Whenever we were. We really couple of dances starting up and racing up
and down the street blaring car yelling in the town people didn't get much sleep
and it's a wonder somebody didn't get to. Sometimes know it wasn't enough.
Sometimes it was kid stuff such as painting the school officials in places where
they had no business to be.
If we had anything
and we don't know what all this carrying on was a discredit to the school.
And then let's see. Yes to the still my freshman year.
We had a purpose and.
It wasn't unusual
but the bad news is the members of the team talking to the student body
but where. Oh I remember what Bob Corby said but it was his turn.
And now I have a few words from our team captain Bob Carr the.
I'm not much of a speaker.
So I guess about all I can do is tell you what I think
and how the boys on the team feel about things.
The first thing I think is if we took a vote right here
and now I would probably be unanimous in favor of the basketball team not making
speeches in assembly. But no kid. There's no kids.
You probably don't realize it and I don't know just how to say it
but all of you out there mean more to the basketball team than any one of us who
play. We spend a lot of time practice
and a lot of time learning to play and sometimes
when we get to thinking we're pretty good but
when the day of the game rolls around.
Well our inside gets changed
and we begin to wonder if we're really going to be any company.
Should be the other team. If it weren't for all of you.
And the way you feel about Lauren type two.
We'd be just another band mostly.
You can feel that here right now right here and it's a simple.
We're all from our We're all for the team.
We want to try to do well
and try to win everything this is done with
that kind of spirit.
I don't see how we can move.
Well that's true. Right into our core he was a hero to every kid
and if he did the whole student body with a point of the scene where we weren't
going to let those little we began to mean more
than just know if an opposing team member was shooting a free throw.
We all kept quiet to give him a chance to make a good win by felt out of the last
minutes with us going to we didn't do the referee we concentrated on supporting the
players who were still in that's what Bob was doing.
We all had a new idea of good sportsmanship that all of us wanted to live up to
and it was setting us straight toward the championship.
Lauren pry was rated one of the top teams in the state.
And that's
when it happened right in the middle of the season halfway to the championship.
Got sick really sick he was a part of the team with him down.
We didn't know whether the team would fold or not what really happened was
that it were just the opposite way people got to thinking about the hospital and.
Everybody became more determined than ever to carry on like what Bob started.
The coach never said we've got to win this one for all by.
He was too smart for that he knew that's what we were all thinking anyway.
Well there was no foolishness at all
and everyone got behind the team in the way
that it counted not calling attention to ourselves
but letting them know we were for them.
And you know it was the thing that carried over into every classroom.
Because when you get right down to it a classroom is a kind of team to students
and teachers working together to accomplish something.
If you look at it that way you realize
that there isn't anybody more on your side than the teacher is whatever class
Shari'a the more we got behind them the more we realized
that Lawrence had as good a faculty as any school.
They were teaching a full day's schedule
and then taking on other jobs for the good of the school jobs like helping plan
constructive assemblies and working within a real sports
and all sorts of other things.
And we didn't want just the teachers doing things for the good of the school.
We wanted to do them ourselves in romance and debate and dramatics
and science class jump way up before long we were as proud of our scholarship
and extracurricular ratings as we were of our other victories.
One student won a National Merit Scholarship that year
and everyone in school felt a personal pride in his accomplishment
when visitors from other schools got into law and I guess they could see
that the building wasn't the newest or the biggest in the state but
that didn't matter.
We knew any school would probably trade their shiny new buildings for what we had
the reputation of being the best school in the state.
Boy I'll never forget the championship game
that you cheerleaders
that knock themselves out on you you know that spark the whole cheering section.
There was an empty seat in the house by the time even though of course trying to
claim it wasn't trying to beat it by the point after all we didn't have a problem
that what you showed us in every man on the team was
that inspired by a play and watching it.
I was on the student council that year and I was one of those who went along
when we talked about Corby the championship trophy. We had was serious. We did it.
Yeah you did
that you can achieve greatness tournaments
and there forget how you came from behind
and one of them I'm feeling just learning a lesson on the radio I knew just how the
team felt with the school behind you. Every minute.
Wish I could been playing with you
but if you just had to take things as they come your way.
Anyway I'm glad I was on the page
and I'm just as proud a list trophy as if I hope to win it
but I guess you're a member of whatever.
Times and spirit in the world that have.
Got to be.
It was hard to realize it was gone.
But in the end he showed us something else.
He's shown that you can lose like a champion to.
I think it's wonderful the way you feel about him. Jimmy.
And I think you're all wrong.
What happened just the way I know you saying that the order of events isn't true.
I'm just saying that you're wrong to give Bob Corby all of the credit
but it was Bob I know it was about all those things he said on
but he says almost the very same thing at every pub assembly without making
that much difference by every school has one thing
or one person to be proud of the way you're proud of popcorn.
But how many of them carry it any further they would have if they know there are
kids of Lawrence now who never Bob can't you see the spirit was there all the time
it wasn't all his doing that brought it out. You're missing the point.
No I know I'm closer to it than you are if what you have of Lawrence depended on
Bob Corby that would have died when he did but it happened it had to be all of you.
How can you argue with a woman. But I did argue with it.
I argued with her for hours.
But you know since then I've been wondering more and more.
Is now a right with Bob could be really less important than I thought the law in
time but was a long time that made Bob Corby I'm bored.
In any school build our kind of school spirit.
If it looks around to see all the things it has to be proud of
and then support the win lose or draw.
I don't know what do you think.