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The third time was the charm
The third time was the charm
Image: Film still from KING 5 television’s “Community Workshop” featuring LEEP, 1965. L to R: Headmaster Dan Ayrault, Floyd Gossett Jr. ’68, and T.J. Vassar ’68.
At the end of the program Dan Ayrault, who was the LEEP Director, asked me to come to Lakeside the next year as a sophomore. I politely refused. Later, he asked me again. I thought about it and again, told him no again. I could think of no real advantages of going to Lakeside. It was far away. There were no girls and there were no girls! Dan Ayrault then talked to my parents to enlist their aid to convince me to come to Lakeside. My parents left the decision entirely up to me. Dan came back to me a third time. I thought, ‘Hmmm, this man really wants me to come to his school.’ I was flattered and decided maybe Lakeside was for me. The third time was in this case, certainly the charm. — June 2, 2010, T.J. Vassar ’68 autobiography
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