LEON ARKSEY, MY FIRXT FACULTY SPECIAL FRIEND             When I started my college teaching career at Seattle Pacific in 1960 my first friend was Leon Arksey a member of the English department. For some reason we sort of hit it off at the first full faculty meeting and it stuck until Leon’s death in the…

SHORT STINT AT SOUTHWESTERN AT MEMPHIS             Right after my years at Duke and Oxford I spent three years teaching at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and LeMoyne College, a Negro college also in Memphis. I have written about those years before so I’ll stick to salient details here. Southwestern was a first-class college…