It is my job to see that you are safe here, and that no harm comes to you while you are in school. It’s Okay”, Albano would continue.ĭesperate, Frank would say, “’Cause I don’t what kinda shit’s in there !!”Īlbano would take a step back, put the bottle back in the valise, and smile again. Albano would say.Īt this point Frank’s so-called buddies would begin to egg him on, urging him to drink the liquid, in a way that severely suggested that they were a lot more interested in the evolving spectacle, than in Frank’s well-being. Albano would genially say to the student he had picked, “Please unscrew the cap, and swallow the liquid.” Inside the bottle was a few ounces of a clear, but obscurely and unusually colored liquid. Then, he would pick a student carefully, approach that student, and pull a small clear glass bottle with a black screw-top out of his valise. “Okay, today, we’re going to talk about Drugs”. He made people who were not in the habit of thinking, think.
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Since my time with him in the classroom and automobile, where he taught me Health and how to drive a car, I have come to see him as a true genius. These predictions were accurate to a degree not suggested possible by statistical variability. Our teacher did not make TOO big a deal of this, though he was often willing to make predictions on the results of his brother’s bouts. To complete the picture, his brother was one of those show wrestlers, Lou Albano, later a huge WWF star as Captain Lou Albano. Both the subject matter, and teacher might have seemed a bit, well, shall we say, Less Academic. And, his presence wasn’t like any of the RHS pedagogue stars: He didn’t have the tweedy, genial sense of learned excellence suggested by a Harry Ahearn, or the muscular, rigorous intellectualism of a Milo Okkema.
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He taught Health, and Driver Ed, but not Physical Ed. His brown hair was slicked straight back, held in position by some sort of lustrous substance, distinctly unfashionable among the young of Ridgewood in 1972. He had this near spherical head and face, stuck on an ovoid body. Well, just looking at him, he didn’t quite fit the picture of the high-impact RHS teacher, that is for sure. Albano is given a fitting tribute here by Chris Stella, RHS 1973 Mr.
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