The greater Greenville writers’ Guild will have to move over and make room for one more member, this time the coauthor of a textbook, "The History of a Free People."
We have told in a previous mulling how little Prock McCutchen once proved his mastery of catch-as-catch-can wrestling. We also brought him down to date, in that same article, as Doctor Samuel P McCutchen, Chairman of Social Studies Department, School of Education, New York University.
Just now, Dr. McCutchen has teamed up with Dr. Henry W. Bragdon, instructor in History, at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, to wrestle with a great country's immediate, not so immediate, and distant past. And the result, which has only recently rolled off the MacMillan Company press, is every bit as charming as one expects from such a pair of perfectionists.
Prock, we thank you for remembering us with a first edition of your book. The only tiling missing is your autograph. As soon as we finish "The History of a Free People", we shall hand It to Dr. Herman Solomon who will give it just such a skilled review as the book deserves. Meanwhile, you could not have sent it to a more appreciative reader than Old Stuff, because history Is our meat.
We want to thank Dr. Clarence H. Brannon also, for the two volumes which stem from his able pen and tireless research. And we particularly appreciate the autographs. Clarence is yet another old Greenville boy who has made his mark in the field of letters, as well as in educational and extension work. As State Entomologist of North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh, Dr. Brannon Is V.I.P.
His most recent book, "An Introduction to the Bible", is four years off the press, but we know that the author spent a lot more time than that in compiling the data and then condensing it. Clarence comes honestly by his Interest in the Bible, for his late beloved Mother was one of the greatest Bible-students we ever knew.
The other Brannon book Is a biography of Dr. Allen H. Godbey, a Methodist minister, whom Clarence regards as one of the great men of his life, and one of the most remarkable of his time. We are counting upon Elliot and Lynn Harbison for a review of the Godbey story.
Looking across the river, we see where Mrs. Ike Worthington has been named "Woman of the Year" In Eudora, Arkansas. Her interests and activities stagger this writer's Imagination. Besides sick-bed visitations, there are church work (she's Baptist), Self Culture Club, Garden Club, Federated Clubs of America, American Legion, Auxiliary Cemetery Association, Child Welfare. School District, hospitalization, Roadside Parks, and all the whole City Treasurer at the Town Hall, and a devoted Mother and wife at home.
A lot of the foregoing would bespeak executive ability, which the dear lady undoubtedly possesses and to spare. But she also works with her hands in the good earth, pulling out shrubs and flowers, pulling weeds, and plugging, night and day, for her hometown to be the prettiest town, the friendliest town, and he most favorably talked of town in the whole wide world.
That was Will Percy's recipe for a better world, Mrs. Worthington, and it's Old Stuff's too until someone comes along with a better idea. (Which he never will,) And we congratulate the town of Eudora for having such a person to vote for, as well as our old friend Ike Worthington for his choice of a wife.
Turning eastward, we note that three Leland friends are also getting up in the world. For at the Bank of Leland, Bill Stanton has been upped to Vice-president, Archie Sterling to Cashier, and Irma (Mrs. Bob) Harris to Assistant cashier. The latter is the wife of Greenville Bank & Trust's Colonel Bob, so the Harrises are one hundred percent a banking family.
Some folks think of banks in terms of chill, if not downright frigidity. Yet the picture of Irma, Archie, and Bill In last Wednesday's Delta Democrat-Times, was taken, in their shirt-sleeves.
And the smiles being generated by the newly promoted cashier and V.P. could be hopeful signs of a moratorium on the word "No".
BC.
