Students walking into Steve Griffith’s highly sought first-period class at Lincoln High School expecting dry texts and dusty minutiae were in for a surprise.
Gesturing to the famous legal minds they’d be studying, Griffith welcomed them with a rousing promise to “Locke Around the Clock.”
It was a reference, of course, to the foundational philosopher John Locke and the early rock song performed by Bill Haley & His Comets…