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...LESTER POUCHER Palatka...
...first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy was inspired to announce that he would be baptized at the revival's end along...
...School's senior class elected its permanent officers Friday, Harrison S. Dimmitt, secretary of the Law School, announced yesterday. Ira S. Siegler 3L of Staten Island was elected Secretary and Paul J. Bryan 3L of Palatka, Florida is Class Marshal. Paul C. Wolman, Jr. 3L of Baltimore was chosen Treasurer...
Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1939 when, evangelizing at a small Baptist church in Palatka, Fla., he was told that he could not continue the meeting unless he became a Baptist. But his education and upbringing were Calvinist, and his preaching still shows it. Last week he treated his predominantly middle-aged audiences to first-hand glimpses of Heaven, Hell and Judgment...
...when he visited his home town, Palatka, as Florida's only admiral son, they gave him a big picnic. The Mayor spoke, praising Calhoun as Palatka's first citizen, greatest man. (Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. U.S. Commander in China, also a Palatka son, had not yet gained fame.) Bill Calhoun, listening to the Mayor, began rocking with laughter. "Why are you laughing. Willie?" the Mayor asked. "When I was last here," Calhoun chortled, "your old lady was my schoolteacher.' When I went away she said, 'Willie Calhoun, you'll never amount to anything...