A Top Ten Memoir: 1975 - "I’m seeing you darling for the very last time…”

I was in sixth grade at the start of 1975.  At Perkins School in Chicago I was a patrol boy, which meant standing on an assigned street corner and controlling when students could cross.  Along with the assignment, us patrol boys got to leave class early and get together for a special patrol gym class once a week.  This latter “perk” was not exactly to m…