{"id":5362,"date":"1958-06-01T05:20:08","date_gmt":"1958-06-01T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2013-06-11T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:41:27","slug":"walter-fink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1958\/06\/01\/walter-fink\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Fink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Fink was, by all reports, a straight arrow. A former air force colonel who still experimented with model airplanes, he brought a military sensibility to the ninth-grade science classroom of Peoria&#8217;s Central High. Outside the classroom, he served as class sponsor of the Hi-Y Club and School Banking Club. Here he is pictured in the 1958 <em>Crest<\/em>, the high school&#8217;s yearbook.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Pryor and Walter Fink did not quite see eye-to-eye. In March 1956, Fink tried to remove Richard bodily from his classroom, and Richard took a swing at him. This was grounds for expulsion, and Richard never returned to ninth grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Fink was, by all reports, a straight arrow. 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