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I Heard the Preaching of the Elders
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I Heard the Preaching of the Elders is a memoir that focuses on my life at Earlham College between 1946 and 1950. The book would not have been written had I not been urged to do so by D. Elton Trueblood, a prominent and popular philosophy professor at Earlham. The memoir begins at the time of my birth, and my growing up in Piper, Alabama, a coal mining camp, hardly more than a clearing in the woods. The book retraces my years in Marion, Alabama, while I attended the Lincoln School, and shows how I got from my humble surroundings to Earlham College. I visited Earlham first in 1942 with the Little Chorus, a group of 22 singers from Lincoln. I fell in love with the college immediately, because of its welcoming atmosphere, sense of community and spirit. After two years, four months and ten days in the Army Air Force, I was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. After refusing a basketball scholarship at Florida A and M, and an opportunity to become a flight engineer on B-29s, I went to Earlham as a first year student in the fall of 1946, having been accepted in January. Powerful friendships evolved with several faculty members and many students. I received an Outstanding Alumni Award, and was a member of the Alumni Council. Later, I became a member of the Board of Trustees at Earlham, its first African American trustee. D. Elton Trueblood told me, You left this place a figure of significance. My odyssey is, indeed, movement from the coal fields of Alabama to Earlham and beyond with Earlham College principles and foundation stones. With Earlham philosophy firmly fixed in my head, the book describes some of my many encounters and experiences over the years. The Lincoln School influence, and gifts Earlham gave me have been major guides in virtually all of my endeavors since leaving the institution. I heard the preaching of the elders.
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