- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
A Practical Degree
A Practical Degree
The University of Illinois
- Chapter:
- (p.77) 7 A Practical Degree
- Source:
- James Still
- Author(s):
Carol Boggess
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter describes the third and last step in his higher education. Guy Loomis funded Still and Dare Redmond to earn a BS degree in library science from the University of Illinois in Champaign. His first semester was rough because his mother, whose health had been declining, died of cancer in early October. That was the biggest challenge of his months in Illinois because the courses were not demanding. His ultimate goal for this degree was to get a job.
Keywords: practical degree, BS library science, University of Illinois, death of mother
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
