One thing I remember about that school is that I won the broad jump championship in a track meet we had, otherwise I wasn't distinguished as an athlete. Although I was a slightly odd bird there at that school, I found that I was sometimes the person who thought up what it would be fun to do. I was influential sometimes in that way. One day I remember I managed to get the entire student body during recess, not playing baseball or skipping rope or doing some other wholesome thing, but walking round and round the building in a great mass. This was regarded as very questionable behaviour by the Principal, Miss Tufts, and she did not altogether think well of me for that. I also became a little dubious in the seventh grade when I founded a club. I called it The Death Club, and of course made myself president of it, and much of my seventh grade year was spent in initiating other people into the club, sometimes in scary ways. By the time everybody in the grade had become a member of my club, it became apparent to us all that we existed only to initiate new members, and so we disbanded, but at any rate, that's something I thought of, that's a way in which I was influential.