Jim Thorpe Made Us All Olympians

What is it about high school? When you consider that high school comes at exactly the time teens are about to erupt from a combination of physical growth spurts, hormonal tension stretched like pulled taffy, psychological confusion and misdirection, and major ineptitudes in all phases of life, mashing them together in a confined space for seven or eight hours a day is just asking for trouble. Yet for more than a century, that's the formula that's been used. Richard Benyo, author of Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, childhood memoirs from the 1950s in East Mauch Chunk and later Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, graduates into Jim Thorpe Senior High School, and the disasters just start to pile up.