Dave Fitzpatrick & Lynda Fisher
Until some time in the eighth or ninth grade, I never had what one would call a circle of friends at school. About the time I got glasses and began to be able to recognize people more than four feet away, such a circle began to develop. Its inner rhomboid included David “Fizzle”) Fitzpatrick, Mike “Magoo” McCue, and Lloyd “Wormley” Hile. I’m still looking for a likeness of Magoo; here are the others:
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Lynda Fisher & David Fitzpatrick Lloyd Hile
Mr “Tiny” Bratton,1 a good faculty friend, was wont to remark upon the inseparability of Fizzle and me and to complain that he could never remember which of us was which. His solution was to call me “Zeke” and Dave “Ira”, but that didn’t really work, either, ’cause he’d call each by the other’s sobriquet, as often as not.

Dave sat next to me in the school orchestra’s clarinet section. Neither of us was ever going to revolutionize the world of clarinetry, but we enjoyed a low-key rivalry for sectional position. Mr McClintick encouraged us to challenge each other, and he’d run competitive auditions, when we did.

Here’s Dave, all dressed up and accompanied by the delightful Lynda Fisher, fellow orchestral clarinetist and perennial good buddy. for some sort of 9th-grade social thing that we double-dated to (largely at Mammy’s insistence).
1 As you may have guessed, “Tiny” received that nickname because he wasn’t. His main subject was Physical Education, but Dave and I were also in a math class that he taught. Lovely man: a jock, to be sure, but by no means a muscle-head.
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