STetc ch 37 be true to your school

[Michael Bailey]

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"I think Doug went to West Division High around the time I was in Chicago Latin" (quoth AC of C in exile)
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"Might be a useful contact for you back there." (Stuffy)
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"We never met, we didn't move in the same circles."

West Division High (name changes, building razed and replaced, now it's a high school of the arts)  https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/westsidehigh


Bruno's alma mater Chicago Latin is a private school (figures)
https://www.latinschool.org/

    Seems like Stuffy is humoring Bruno, pretending that the latter is in any kind of position to call on contacts

or maybe, Stuffy's starting a little debriefing. If you had the AC of C in exile in your, like, power, what would you do? Even if Daphne has all the hard copies, Bruno's knowledge could be very helpful to U-13's captain and fearless crew. (and their mysterious clients)


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Or, Bruno, with his expensive education, and marketing/flimflam background, might, over time, in conversations, be able to turn the narrative to his advantage, and become the decision-maker for U-13
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Thus enabling a return to command of his cheese empire, a la Napoleon


in Bruno's mind he probably feels his position to be something like that of Gandalf in Saruman's Tower, although objectively speaking he's more like Humbert Humbert at the end of Lolita ... or that Kinbote guy in "Pale Fire"...

But one puzzles over the question of "who are Hauffnitz & Stuffy's principals?"


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Not "what are their principles" - I think that Hauffnitz & Stuffy (and presumably their principals), like Hicks, are moving towards a non-violent, or at least less-violent, ethos & perhaps that's a theme in the book (I like to think so)


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Who are their principals, who paid for all the fricken submarine fuel to run U-13 across the Atlantic, down the St Lawrence Seaway, through the Straits of Mackinac & under Lake Michigan to pick up Stuffy? And for the cigar given to Bruno, etc?


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At this point, my sense is that their principals are Mr Weatherbee from Riverdale High ("the Bee") and Mr Woodman from James Buchanan High...there may be earlier passages which will clarify to our greater satisfaction & enlightenment