When I was a student at Kirby Junior High School, Mr. Otis C. Polk, Sr. was our principal. Or, as he told it, he was our princi-pal. It was Mr. Polk's way of 'killing two birds with one stone". One, he was teaching us the correct spelling and usage of the word principal (as opposed to principle, of course) and two, he was letting us know that he was someone we could and should come to with