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Harry Caudill, A Native Son

Harry Caudill, A Native Son Thomas D. Clark An enduring mystery in the life of a university professor is the fact that he or she never knows what students might become in the future. There may always be one student who has the latent talent to shake a region or a state out of its encrusted lethargies, lethargies born of generations of social failures. I recall vividly the day, and the peculiar circumstance, when I first spotted the tall rawboned mountain boy, Harry Caudill, sitting in the middle of the classroom being attentive. In some way, however, Harry had accidentally become attractive to a deranged woman member of the class. When I discovered Harry's predicament I undertook to extricate him, and in the process got acquainted with him. He was a bright diligent freshman who had both a mind and a will of his own. Harry wanted to study both state and national history. Already he had questions in his mind about Appalachian Kentucky and its people. In that turbulent moment, in both world and national history, when western civilization was again being threatened by a great war, professorstudent relationships became somewhat more sensitive. Certainly for both, issues were blurred. Like hundreds of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Harry Caudill, A Native Son

Appalachian Review , Volume 21 (2) – Jan 8, 1993

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Thomas D. Clark An enduring mystery in the life of a university professor is the fact that he or she never knows what students might become in the future. There may always be one student who has the latent talent to shake a region or a state out of its encrusted lethargies, lethargies born of generations of social failures. I recall vividly the day, and the peculiar circumstance, when I first spotted the tall rawboned mountain boy, Harry Caudill, sitting in the middle of the classroom being attentive. In some way, however, Harry had accidentally become attractive to a deranged woman member of the class. When I discovered Harry's predicament I undertook to extricate him, and in the process got acquainted with him. He was a bright diligent freshman who had both a mind and a will of his own. Harry wanted to study both state and national history. Already he had questions in his mind about Appalachian Kentucky and its people. In that turbulent moment, in both world and national history, when western civilization was again being threatened by a great war, professorstudent relationships became somewhat more sensitive. Certainly for both, issues were blurred. Like hundreds of

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1993

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