Post Scripts: Another in the Hall of Fame

We are proud to announce that we now have another member of our family in the Hall of Fame. In case you don’t know what that is. It is the highest honor an organization can bestow on anyone, we think.

Daughter Kathy Ann Lawrence McCarty, was in Louisville, Ky., last week where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the College Media Advisers, an organization for those who work with college students to help them attain their goal in the field of journalism. She joined this organization in 1984 and is past president and a lifetime member.

She retired from the University of Texas in Austin last November after 15 years as Media Adviser there. Before that she was at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa for 10 years. She graduated with a BJ in Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1964 and received her Masters degree and 36 hours beyond at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

From the time she graduated from MU she worked on newspapers in Missouri, Iowa, California and Pennsylvania before moving to Alabama. Just last week she began a part time job at the Texas State University here in San Marcos in the visitors center there. She just can’t stay away from those college students.

I received the honor of being inducted into the Hall of Fame from the Missouri Press Association in 1993 for my work of many years in the newspaper association in Missouri. That was a great honor for this humble newspaper man who wasn’t lucky enough to have a college education.

Kathy Ann began her interest in the newspaper business when she was a small child following me around from getting the mail at the post office to writing her own School News column when she was 10 years old. When she was a senior in high school she put an item on the school bulletin board asking for anyone interested in reviving the school newspaper which had been dropped some years before. She gathered the news with help of some other students and did the typesetting herself and helped print it.

She worked at the newspaper office during her high school years in several capacities and knew that was the field she wanted so, there was no doubt she would enter the School of Journalism at M.U. She was awarded several scholarships through her four years there.

Need we say we are very proud of our daughter?

We can’t fail to tell you of another honor I received Friday night. We had our annual Halloween party at the clubhouse of the Wellington, where we make our home here in San Marcos. Kathy insisted I go as M&M candy. One of granddaughter Molly’s friends had left this costume in her car some years ago after trick or treating and she didn’t want it back so it was retrieved and put on me. I also had a wig of different strands of yarn to represent the different colors of M&M candy. So I won third place along with other prize winners, a scarecrow and a ghost.

Then on Halloween night we went to our daughter’s home here in San Marcos and witnessed more than a thousand trick or treaters who came to their door for a piece of candy. From five until nine, when they ran out of candy, there was a constant stream of people at their well decorated front porch and son-in-law, David, along with a bit of help from me and others, handed out candy. Cars lined the street and people of all ages from newborn babies to grandparents, were out and about. As I understand not all of San Marcos is so deluged with people, but this street for several blocks, gets the most people. I think there is less traffic on this street lined with many historical homes. Their house is the oldest home in San Marcos still being occupied.