hello i'm jim gordon the people i work with call me mr gordon at least when i'm around they do they're about your age that's right your age you see i'm principal of lincoln high school my job is to help boys and girls be the kind of young men and women they like to be capable educated and responsible the sheet of paper is mighty important to two of our young people i don't know what's on it but i do know that it could make a big difference in the lives of hank evans and lloyd smith however the contents of the paper would make the most it's to hank evidence before i look at it i'd like to tell you some things about hank evans and i know more about him than he thinks i know hank givens team to lincoln high school from lowell school his older sister vera had been one of our best students and we were glad to have another evans at lincoln it was the opening day of person a while that really tell you about him for instance about the third week of cool and mr jackson's english class thank the site is very important to discover farai shakespeare introduced the ghost in say she did say something about two chapters but what and what two chapters read them for nothing besides i've done enough work for one night perhaps hank wasn't entirely to blame that he wasn't prepared for english class the next day but beverly anderson was prepared she had taken it upon herself to make sure what she was supposed to do and had written it down so it wouldn't slip her mind lloyd smith could contribute to the class discussion too because he had learned that you can't let things slide and expect to keep up and hanging oh he had a couple of bad moments he hardly knew what was being talked about but he managed to avoid being called no one except himself was the wiser i couldn't pull a slip of paper right now and see whether we the teachers and i had been wrong and hank evans has been right does it make any difference if you let things slide once in a while but let me tell you one other incident in hanks career he annoyed smith used to get their lessons together it was an even up proposition neither one of them did more work than the other one of the x minus three times quantity never be able son my answers draw a circle around the answers he wants to see how we got him deadly for sure i intended to put in all the figuring that like there where you marked out all that stuff but you want to copy it over so it looks better i got all the answers in there all right that's all i care about well i got a coffee mine suit yourself it may not be quite fair to say that this attitude toward his work was what you remembered about thank heavens hank was friendly intelligent popular and had a way with people most of the time he was an asset to lincoln high and i've got news for you boy this is the twenty seventh wednesday the twenty seventh but we always hand seems it on friday i didn't look it up i didn't actually thought friday was the twenty seventh i didn't think i sat there for probably the first time  couldn't make anyone see how reasonable his error had been this granby asked him to say year after class you've taken the trouble to make me but it was late this carry on or hank not all we asked for is here now part of the assignment was to make an outline for the theme to not line you knew you were supposed to make an outline but i didn't feel i didn't think it was important if i can write a good team without making an outline why do i have to that's not the point hank i can teach you how to punctuate and spell and how to write themes but more important you must learn to face responsibility for your student at lincoln high it's your job to know what the lesson is how it's to be done and when it's expected i can't make you retarded all that you have to do for yourself that's all that's appreciation for you after all the work i went to my responsibility she says i know what's the matter my sister vera always made straight a's and everybody sings i'm going to be just like her all right teaches  well maybe hank evans did get something from the top because after that he took special pains to find out the but when and how in miss granby flashes but people don't change completely as a result of one conversation over one assignment often it takes something big to convince a fellow he's on the wrong track and really needs to mend his ways maybe this is the something big for hank evans what is it didn't i tell you this is one vote in the school election but there's one story about hank i would like to tell you before i tell you about the election last year hank evans went out for the debate team he and beverly anderson were selected for the affirmative against wilson high in the practice session hank and beverly were pitted against lloyd smith and l t taylor says our opponents have failed to establish any basis for a change we must realize that this contention should stand as stated find your bank i wish i could make things sound as good as you do proud was nothing nothing at least that doesn't think so what's the didn't think it was worth doing and the idea that he wasn't doing his share didn't even occur to him not until the day tournament got underway then not being sure of his facts and faced by students from wilson who knew their facts and began to suffer from a strange terrible malady stage fright with stage fright his ability to make his arguments sound convincing evaporated it was pretty bad he knew that he had let beverly down and not just beverly but the school the tournament was lost of course lincoln lost because of hank adams the guy who could have prepared himself but didn't could he be trusted again another test was coming up very soon for hank evans not an ordinary test it might be better to call it a judgment of hank by his fellow students hank was nominated for president of the student body and the other candidate was his friend lloyd smith the election was held this morning during the first period was he voted for hank the more popular one or ford lloyd the more responsible one here it is the one vote to decide the election is it for h would you vote