特色：
Anybody who knows me now will not believe me when I say that up until the fourth grade in P.S. 157, I was shy and retiring. But at the beginning of the fourth grade my lifes direction changed. I will never know what Mr. lames Cooper (a devilishly hand some African-American teacher) saw in me or for that matter what the other teachers saw who recommended me to him. But Mr. Cooper asked me to run for secretary of the student council. I ran and won, and as they say the rest is history. I remained in the student coun cil for the fifth grade and was voted vice president in the sixth grade. I went on to Junior High School 81, joined the school patrol, and graduated from the ninth grade as school leader with the obnoxious title of Head of Heads.