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...Bookman, Martha Bucknell, Edwin Darby, T. George Harris, Henry Luce III, James L. McConaughy, Jr., William McHale, Alyce Moran, Anatole Visson, William White. CHICAGO: Sam Welles, Robert W. Glasgow, Ruth Mehrtens, Robert Schulman. Los ANGELES: Ben Williamson, James Murray, John Allen, Lyn Kennedy. DETROIT: Fred Collins. ATLANTA: William Howland, Boyd McDonald. BOSTON: Jeff Wylie. DALLAS: William Johnson. HOUSTON: Willard C. Rappleye, Jr. DENVER: Ed Ogle, Charles Champlin. SAN FRANCISCO: Alfred Wright. SEATTLE: Dean Brelis. OTTAWA: Serrell Hillman Byron W. Riggan. MONTREAL: James R. Conant...
...Howland began teaching his prison classes at the suggestion of the late John R. Marsh, husband of Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell. Howland had known Novelist Mitchell as a fellow reporter on the Atlanta Journal. Before her death, she had taken a deep interest in the literary efforts of the prisoners and established a fund for annual prizes. Howland is also one of the judges for these annual Margaret Mitchell awards for creative writing...
Twice a month Howland visits his class of prison students, trains a critical eye on their copy or gives a lecture on current events, and then throws the session open to informal questions. The meetings are usually pretty lively. Howland finds the prisoners are quick to ask questions, eager to argue. In a recent letter to me, Warden W. H. Hiatt summed up the three years of Howland's classes: "He has provided wholesome tonic by giving vital Howland impetus to realistic thinking about social, economic and political topics...
...article in the current issue of The Atlantian, a magazine written and edited by his prison students, states the classroom attitude toward Teacher Howland: ". . . Bill, who comes to the prison as often as the press of bureau business will allow, is a guy who gets right down to cases. He strides into a room, pitches his coat to the nearest man, and says, 'Now, what do you want to talk about?' If it's politics, just ask him. He's covered the conventions, interviewed almost all the major names on the front pages, and can give...
...each class session, Howland promises the men that he will return on the usual condition: that they feel free to needle him with questions just as sharply as he criticizes their writing...