Donald: A Family History and Memoirs of a Journalist and Professor

DONALDS WORLD  leads on a young boys  trip to the top of the tallest building

between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s   When he returned

home he climbed a 60-feet  tree in his back yard to see from a distance where

he had been.

Who is this boy?  The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to  his mothers

commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is

released under his care and gardianship.

Chapter 3  explores the family tree and  adventures by  those who made the

Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure.

It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return

to Tennesee  from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100

hours!

Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his

older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt  know until  she died many years later that her  middle name was Charity.

The headline for Chapter 6  is The White Avenue Gang.  Donald recalls being

only a  bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue

and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the

block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke

Ferdinand to start World War I.

Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days,  summer work in the Sierra                                              

before joining the Navy and  being saved  by bombs that crushed two Japanese

cities.  He cast  his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes

went only to Republicans.  During college Marcia and Don where married

before their sophomore year.  After graduation Don joined UP and  34 year

career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor  at Oklahoma State

University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail dreed@aol.com