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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you.  At least there is finally some recognition that the current Hardy IB parents who had nothing to do with the fiasco there are screwed.

I got the first inkling of the total disdain Pope had for IB parents in the fall of 2008 when he blew off a middle school meeting at Key and sent some woman who went on and on about some football player who had gone to Hardy. Even though my child was only in K at the time serious alarm bells went off. [/quote]

I was at that meeting and it was worse than you remember. The woman was named Lucille Hester, and she went on about how her brother, Bob Hayes, had recently been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. Shortly thereafter it came out that she was an imposter -- she's no relation to Bob Hayes, and it appears that she falsified a number of documents from Hayes, including his will, which had set her up as CEO of the Bob Hayes Foundation. I seem to recall her getting into some legal trouble over the will, but I don't remember exactly.

You can read about the sordid mess here:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2009/02/breaking_news_hall_of_fame_fra.php

Interestingly, an article about Bob Hayes' burial says this:
"Patrick Pope of the Bob Hayes Foundation Inc. said Hayes was a man who made few requests, but he did ask that Roosevelt's words be on his monument."

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/122107/met_227509261.shtml

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I'm confused, Is Pope somehow getting implicated in what some wacko said at a meeting about a former Hardy student?

Does that fact that he is quoted making a totally benign statement about the former student at his graveside somehow taint him?[/quote]

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