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- Addressee: Overing, E.J., Jr.
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- Letter ID: 0159
- Addressee: Overing, E.J., Jr.
- Date: 1909-04-30
- Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation; L. Bruce Bohlke, ed., Willa Cather in Person
To E. J. Overing, Jr.,
[President of the Red Cloud Board of Education]
Apr. 30, 1909
[letter read at 1909 commencement exercises and published in the Red Cloud Chief May 27, 1909]
; WCPM , also Bohlke.
Had hoped to be there for commencement, but is leaving for London on business. Has kept up with Red Cloud schools through brothers and sisters. Remembers
with love Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Goudy
and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Case.
Mrs. Case, then Miss King, was principal when she
first entered the school. Remembers her first teacher and some of her fellow pupils. Always
tried to please Miss King, who helped and advised her
all through high school—even tried to teach her algebra, an impossibility. Hard to
believe it has been nineteen years since she graduated. Best wishes to the new graduates. They
should try to live up to their teachers' goals for them.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#159]
