He once worked on his high school newspaper.

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Doubly heartening was the enthusiasm of high school journos who represented their school newspaper at the forum.

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McLendon seemed to be "a cool guy, " former high school classmate Cecil Knowles told the Dothan Eagle newspaper.

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Nothing against high school teachers, but before the article runs in a newspaper, perhaps someone could ask a physics professor what he thinks?

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Educated at Regent House Grammar School (from which he says he was "asked to leave") and Dundondald High School, his first break in journalism was as a trainee at the Newsletter newspaper in Northern Ireland.

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After graduating from Sebastopol High School, unable to afford college, he found work as a printer with the San Francisco Newspaper Agency.

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