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This memoir by a retired black college professor highlights his life and experiences from childhood through his professional career. He covers his service as a draftee in the U.S. Army serving in Europe and in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. He chronicles his life after the war as an undergraduate and graduate student in the United States and in France. He details events in his 45-year career as a teacher and advocate for his people.
EPILOGUE
I thank former colleagues, former students and others for sharing my recollections, reflections and impressions garnered from a forty-five -year working life in a career that rewarded me richly. To paraphrase Henry Channing, you made it possible for me ;"to live content with small means; to seek elegance rather luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, h |
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