McCain the 'Punk' Goes Back to School
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4565619&page=1
Once 'McNasty', Presumed Republican Nominee Praises Teacher's
Influence
By ED O'KEEFE
April 1, 2008
John McCain is a punk. At least that's what the editors of his high
school yearbook thought.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was known as 'McNasty' and the 'Punk'
during high school years filled with mischief and demerits. But this
week...
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was known as 'McNasty' and the 'Punk'
during high school years filled with mischief and demerits. But this
week the presumptive Republican nominee returned to Episcopal High
School as most likely to succeed.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)"It was a fateful three years ago that
the "Punk" first crossed the threshold of the High School," wrote the
editors of the red-leather edition of "The Whispers," a glossy
yearbook chronicling the achievements of the 1954 class of Episcopal
High School in Alexandria, Va.
"His magnetic personality has won for him many life-long friends," the
yearbook continued, "but, as magnets must also repel, some have found
him hard to get along with."
More than 50 years later, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., returned
triumphantly to Episcopal, a little less "punk" and a lot more "most
likely to succeed."
The Original 'McNasty'
McCain traveled back to the private school's campus Tuesday, the
second stop on a week-long biography tour intended to reintroduce the
senator to the American public.
"I'm happy to be back at Episcopal, my alma mater, which I have many
happy memories of, and a few that I'm sure former teachers, school
administrators and I would rather forget," McCain, who in addition to
"Punk" was known as "McNasty" during his high school years.
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of John Sidney McCain Jr., a four-star Navy admiral and commander of
Pacific naval forces in Vietnam, conceded, "Until I enrolled at
Episcopal, my education had been constantly disrupted by the demands
of my father's naval career, which required us to move so often that I
lost track of the number of schools I attended."
McCain arrived at Episcopal, a sprawling, private preparatory
institution in the suburbs of Wa****ngton, D.C., in 1952.
On the Episcopal Web site, the High School, as it is known by students
and alumni, describes EHS in the 1950s as an all-boys school with 240
students 22 faculty members and "annual tuition was $1,400."
"I arrived [at Episcopal] a pretty rambunctious boy, with a little bit
of a chip on my shoulder," McCain, now the presumed Republican nominee
for president said Tuesday. "I was always the new kid, and was
accustomed to proving myself quickly at each new school as someone not
to be challenged lightly."
Indeed, McCain won none of the honors that might be expected of a
future presidential contender.
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