Another classmate recalled: "I don't care who you were, you didn't mess with him.

"He was just like Bill Clinton, shaking everybody's hands," one classmate recalled.

In one such piece, a female classmate recalls, they read directions for a tampon insertion.

"Qingming ate meat just once a week," one classmate recalled.

The classmate recalls a conversation in which his friend told him about dangerous information he had uncovered concerning a coming crisis in the international financial markets.

A classmate later recalled that the teacher "agreed that Elvis was right when he said that she didn't appreciate his kind of singing."

A classmate recalls riding to class with Fry, who stopped the car because a turtle was crossing the road.

A former classmate has recalled that he was an intelligent student who often took care of people who were bullied.

"She would look at a model and draw what none of us saw," recalls her classmate, the screenwriter Stewart Stern.

However, a classmate of James recalled that "Ray always dressed well and knew he'd make something of himself."