Flannery (53 page)

86
“poetic and romantic”: “Miss Katherine Scott Reads Paper to D.A.R.,”
Union-Recorder,
October 21, 1943.

86
“They would not have been”: Mary Barbara Tate, in discussion with the author, March 6, 2004.

86
“They would start talking”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
57.

87
“Even then, it was obvious”: William Schemmel, “Southern Comfort,”
Travel-Holiday
(June 1988): 72.

87
“I found my ideal”: Boyd, “My First Impression.”

87
“Girls were crying”: Louise Simmons Allen, in discussion with the author, November 2, 2004.

88
“Sugar was scarce”: Virginia Wood Alexander, e-mail to the author, October 23, 2005.

88
“This war is making us think”:
Colonnade,
April 11, 1942.

88
“calling attention to the prejudice”:
Colonnade,
April 18, 1932.

88
“foreign ideas”: William Ivy Hair, with James Bonner, Edward B. Dawson, and Robert J. Wilson III,
A Centennial History of Georgia College
(Milledgeville: Georgia College, 1979), 201.

89
“Palace Beauty Salon”: MFOC, “Two Fragments,” GCSU.

89
“I grew up in Madison”: Gladys Baldwin Wallace, letter to the author, October 22, 2004.

89
“People find it odd”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.

89
“older spinster-suffragette”: Helen Matthews Lewis, “GSCW in the 1940s: Mary Flannery Was There Too,”
Flannery O’Connor Review
3 (2005): 50.

90
“Ours are girls”: Ibid., 51.

90
“Most of the time”: Zell Barnes Grant, letter to the author, October 25, 2004.

90
“They were so close”: Jane Sparks Willingham, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2004.

91
“She was very fond”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
55.

91
“Now let me see”: FOC, unpublished portion of letter to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949, GCSU.

91
“This should reassure”: Ibid., November 17, 1949.

91
“shortly, probably asking”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, April 24, 1951,
HB,
24.

91
“We kept trying”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.

91–92
“country bumpkin”: Ibid.

92
“she did write”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 25, 1955,
CW,
972.

92
“kept ducks”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.

92
“Flannery did not want”: Harriet Thorp Hendricks, letter to the author, November 1, 2004.

93
“Connie Howell”:
Colonnade,
November 9, 1943.

93
“I will not”: Alice Alexander, “The Memory of Milledgeville’s Flannery O’Connor Is Still Green,”
Atlanta Journal,
March 28, 1979.

93
“Dr. Wynn was a gentleman”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
58.

93
“He was a laughingstock”: Mary Barbara Tate, in discussion with the author, March 6, 2004.

93
“A few days later”: MFOC, “Going to the Dogs,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1942): 14.

94
“Unusual Occupations”: Kelly Suzanne Gerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Toward a Visual Hermeneutics” (PhD dissertation, Auburn University), footnote 14: 32.

94
“It may look like”: Betty Boyd Love, “Recollections,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin,
66.

94
“The Immediate Results”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(October 9, 1942): 4.

95
“I thought of her then”: Gertrude Ehrlich, e-mail to the author, October 6, 2004.

95
“Aw, nuts!”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(October 24, 1942): 4.

95
“It seemed to rain”: Virginia Wood Alexander, e-mail to the author, October 23, 2005.

95
“I remember her being”: Frances Lane Poole, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.

96
“Doggone”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(November 14, 1942): 4.

96
“fast making a name”: Nelle Womack Hines, “Mary O’Connor Shows Talent as Cartoonist,”
Macon Telegraph and News,
June 13, 1943.

97
Waves: The description of the Waves at GSCW is taken largely from Hair et al.,
Centennial History,
215–18.

97
“They’d get out every morning”: Jane Sparks Willingham, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2004.

97
“We had very little contact”: Hair et al.,
Centennial History,
216.

98
“They were always in the way”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.

98
“Officer or no officer”:
Colonnade
(January 23, 1943): 4.

98
“When convoys passed”: Charmet Garrett, letter to the author, November 10, 2004.

99
“two of the soldiers”: Gertrude Treanor, letter to Agnes Florencourt, May 11, 1941, private collection.

99
“Miss Katie used to sit”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.

99
“I can still remember”: Johnny Marko, letter to Katherine Cline, undated, “Special Collections,” GCSU.

99
“About this time of day”: Jim Bird, letter to Katherine Cline, undated, “Special Collections,” GCSU.

100
“a handsome Marine”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,”
Georgia Review
52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 409.

100
“tin leg”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 10, 1956,
HB,
145.

100
“Oh, well”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(April 3, 1943): 2.

100
“a close comradeship”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Patterns,” 410.

101
priesthood: Sally Fitzgerald writes that “he asked her to continue to write to him, which she did until she apparently decided that it was inappropriate to continue, and they drifted out of contact.” Sullivan eventually left the seminary to pursue a career in business and later married. “Patterns,” 411.

102
“womanpower in this war”: “D.A.R. Endorses Aid for Liberty,”
Union-Recorder,
March 18, 1943.

102
“Miss Hallie required”: Marion Peterman Page, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.

102
“a twang”: Karen Owens Smith, letter to the author, November 3, 2004.

102
“six, tall grey”: FOC, “Exercise A,” GCSU.

102
“The other houses”: James Joyce, “Araby,”
Dubliners,
edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz (New York: Penguin Books, Viking Critical Library, 1996), 29.

102
“Nine out of Every Ten”: FOC, Folder 4-b, GCSU.

103
“highly recommendable”: MFOC, [Review of
The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf],
Corinthian
18, no. 2 (Winter 1943): 14.

103
“translucent mush”: FOC, “Five Titled Exercises,” GCSU.

103
“loud-labeled tin cans”: FOC, “Exercise,” GCSU.

103
“tin cans”: William Faulkner, “Barn Burning,”
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner
(New York: Modern Library, 1993), 1.

103
“Excellent”: Folder 4-c, GCSU.

103
“plain looking”: Karen Owens Smith, letter to the author, November 3, 2004.

103
“At the time it seemed”: Marion Peterman Page, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.

103
“zuit-suited”: FOC, “A Place of Action,” GCSU.

104
“belligerent”: MFOC, “Home of the Brave,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1943): 5.

104
“When I went to Iowa”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955,
CW,
950.

105
Alka-Seltzer: Alexander, “Memory,”
Atlanta Journal.

105
“I had a course”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 3, 1963,
HB,
533.

105
“Think twice”: FOC, a draft of a speech delivered at GCSU; Frances Poole, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.

105
“In college I read works”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955,
CW,
950.

105
“She was considered dangerous”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
66.

105
“My introduction to her”: Ana Pinkston Phillips, letter to the author, October 21, 2004.

106
“Could I interest”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(November 9, 1943): 2.

106
“I had 3”: FOC to Janet McKane, January 27, 1964,
HB,
564.

106
“I remember Flannery as outstanding”: Jane Strozier Smith, e-mail to the author, October 28, 2004.

106
“Master of Rotating Tops”: MFOC, “Doctors of Delinquency,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1943): 13.

106
“Tums and Ex-Lax”: MFOC, “Biologic Endeavor,”
Corinthian
(Spring 1944): 7, 8.

106
“until students quit school”: MFOC, “Education’s Only Hope,”
Corinthian
(Spring 1945): 15.

107
“old fashion wardrobe”: Elizabeth Wansley Gazdick, letter to the author, October 22, 2004.

107
“I was an art major”: Joan DeWitt Yoe, letter to the author, October 21, 2004.

107
“She was one of the most”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.

107
“Well I know”: Mary Barbara Tate, “Flannery O’Connor: At Home in Milledgeville,”
Studies in Literary Imagination
20, no. 2 (1987): 34.

107
“the smartest woman”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949,
HB,
19.

107
“very carefully brought up”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
65.

107–108
“My survey of European History”: Helen I. Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor,” 44.

108
“Elms form a stately avenue”:
Spectrum,
1943.

108
“Oh, what is so effervescent”: MFOC, “Effervescence,”
Corinthian
18, no. 2 (Spring 1943): 16.

109
“My roommate and I”: Mary Elizabeth Anderson Bogle, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.

109
“Although the majority”: The Editor, “Excuse Us While We Don’t Apologize,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1944): 4.

110
“a lot of encouragin’”: Jean Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor, A Reminiscence and Some Letters,”
North American Review
225, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 59.

110
“I thought then”: Bee McCormack, e-mail to the author, March 3, 2005.

110
“I like cartoons”: FOC to Janet McKane, August 27, 1963,
CW,
1191.

110
“You can go jump”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,”
Everything That Rises Must Converge
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965), xii.

110
“wonderful, merry cartoons”: Margaret Inman Meaders, “Flannery O’Connor: ‘Literary Witch,’”
Colorado Quarterly
10, no. 4 (Spring 1962): 377.

111
“In the linoleum cuts”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,”
Everything That Rises,
xii.

111
“Mary Flannery decorated”: Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor,” 45–46.

111
“We were laughing”: Peggy George Sammons, e-mail to the author, October 25, 2004.

112
“Your quoting of a poem”: FOC to Janet McKane, December 13, 1963,
HB,
554.

112
“a bit breathlessly”: Meaders, Flannery O’Connor, 381. Betty Boyd Love remembers FOC asking the question, in her briefer account in her “Recollections” draft, GCSU.

113
“humanizing the machine”: George W. Beiswanger, “The Dance and Today’s Needs,”
Theatre Arts Monthly
19, no. 6 (June 1935): 440.

113
“I understand she says”: MFOC, cartoon,
Colonnade
(February 7, 1945): 4.

113
The Making of the Modern Mind:
The full title of this book by John Herman Randall, Jr., was
The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age
(Boston: Houghton, 1926).

113
“an academic best-seller”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
67.

114
“What kept me a sceptic”: FOC to Alfred Corn, May 30, 1962,
CW,
1164–65.

114
“[He] is the one”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Tuesday [Summer 1952],
HB,
41.

114
“Philosophy class”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.

114
“It was philosophical
modernism
”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
67.

115
“the hope for lasting peace”: “G.S.C. Graduates Hooded Monday,”
Union-Recorder,
June 14, 1945.

116
“The usual bunk”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
57.

116
“the realm of further study”:
Colonnade
(June 6, 1945): 2.