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...searching man was a wandering boy. He spent his early childhood in the South Pacific, where his father was director of trust territories for the State Department. Bill attended Eastern prep schools, spent his senior year of college in England, then traveled to Australia and worked on a sheep farm. "I assisted in the birth of many sheep-they're really dumb animals, they'd come out feet first. But I found that doing what you want to do-and for me, for now, it's acting-is like those sheep giving birth: it's pulling...
...runaway success of The Official Preppy Handbook (more than 1 million copies sold) proved that the American preppie is a marketable commodity. Now three young men from the suburbs around Louisville are turning the prep school image into a profitable business...
...worth $7 an hour, which is more than double the $3.35 minimum hourly wage. But other customers are more worried about those uniforms. "The first thing I thought was that I hope they don't get paint on the expensive Izod shirts," says Mary Remmers, who hired the prep corps to do some painting. "I'd tell my own children to wear something scroungy...
...squash has presided over an old dynasty and men's swimming over a new one, but despite their regional prominence, neither appeal to many people outside of a small, dedicated group of followers. Suffice it to say, if you haven't played squash before (read: gone to prep school), you're not going to have much chance of making the squash team. And further, if you haven't swum in high school, you're not going to be able to join crafty coach Joe Bernal's talented team in cushy Blodgett Pool...
...parents who hope to get their children into a traditional prep school like Lake Forest, that may be good advice. But in the past decade private schools have grown bewilderingly diverse. The 1980 Porter Sargent Handbook of Private Schools lists 1,800. Counselors provide a helping hand through the pedagogical thicket, especially to the increasing number of parents who are uneasily exploring for the first time the once snobbish world of prep schools...