I To wet your appetite: In Dewey Taylor's words.
"By sixteen, I realized that my life was going nowhere and wondered what to do with myself. One evening, I was watching television when a news clip about Job Corps came on. I immediately became glued to the program. The narrator said it was a place that used hands-on learning to help kids complete high school while learning a trade. The possibility of going to Job Corps energized me enough to contact the local center and to my surprise, I discovered that my aunt worked in their office. She helped smooth the way for my admittance.
"Since girls were my downfall, I thought it better that I go the an all-male school some distance from home."
Fort Simcoe, based on an Indian reservation in central Washington fit Dewey's situation, and as he later told me, "I fell in love with it and adapted well to the discipline and the kindness shown by teachers who understood boys like me."
