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Ron D Eller John Whisman It has been said that the difference between a dreamer and a leader is that one has the capacity to help us see the future and the other has the ability to help us get there. John Whisman was a leader. He, Bert Combs, John Sherman Cooper, Jennings Randolf and a host of others of his generation had a vision of what Appalachia might become. Theirs was a generation that had come of age in World War II and shared an abiding confidence in the ability of the American way to overcome challenges, to fight poverty and depression, and to build a brighter future through science and technology. It was a "can do" generation that learned to work together for a common goal. But in a generation of visionaries it was John Whisman who also knew how to turn that vision into action. He was always their planner whether he was figuring out a more efficient way to read a bomb site in Ron D Eller, writer, lecturer, is director of the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky. World War II, sketching out the Kentucky parkway system on a napkin with Bert
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1995
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