Low Flying Incident in Flight School

And one day after, this is after I finally got my solo and it took me I think it was seven hours of instruction from my instructor and then he said, "You're ready to go solo." so off I went and that was a great day to be up by yourself and feel that you've done it. So I guess about a week or two after I was, that I had soloed and I was flying pretty well every day on my own, I got an idea that I should go down and pay my respects to my old alma mater. So I flew down to Bishops, it was not a great long flight, probably about a fifteen minute flight and when I got down there it happened to be about, it seemed to me it was sort of two o'clock in the afternoon and I approached from the west and I came down and there's what we call a quadrangle, a huge quadrangle and the school, main school building was on the right, the big indoor hockey rink was on the left and at the head was a huge building which was a dining room and a library. Well I came down right into this quadrangle, touched my wheels and pulled up over the dining room library building. Well the school just turned out en masse, I mean just everybody was leaning out windows and waving you know they thought this was a wonderful thing. Well the reason I'm telling this story is that when I got back to Windsor Mills I got out of the air plane and I said to myself, "Finely, you are a horse's ass. You're just plain stupid. Somebody could report you for doing that and you'd just not only not get your wings, but you would be turfed right out of the air force, a low flying stunt like that." So that brought me to my senses, not that I could retract anything, it was done. Fortunately for me nobody did report it. But, years later there's a fella here in Ottawa who is a retired brigadier general and his name is Mike Doyle and Mike Doyle was at the school with me but he was a couple of grades behind me. So when I came in and made this pass and he was about to graduate from Bishops, he said, "That's for me, air force for me." And he said it was what I did that made him want to join the Air Force.