That's a remarkable story, Warren, personal and touching. Thanks for sharing it. Terry Oggel just east on I 64 from you, in Richmond, at VCU On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 7:19 AM Warren Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thank you for remembering Hal Holbook, Shelley. > > I had the good fortune to win a scholarship to attend Culver Military > Academy starting in the fall of 1958. It was a fabulous and life-changing > experience. I graduated in 1961. Having graduated from Culver in 1944, Mr. > Holbrook had preceded me there by seventeen years. I saw him perform once > there and several more times over the years. The last time was in the early > 1990s when my beloved bride and I lived in Tulsa. Before the curtain went > up that night, I sent a note to him backstage; on the back of my business > card, I said I was a Culver graduate and asked him if he would do 'The War > Prayer' which I had seen the first time at Culver more than thirty years > before. I had read that he chose what he was going to do in a given > performance as he went along, based on the audience's reaction to the > choices he was making. Sure enough, near the end of the evening, he did the > 'The War Prayer.' It was even more spectacular and moving than I had > remembered. I was thrilled. > > A couple of weeks later, I got a handwritten note from him in the mail. He > thanked me for attending and said he hoped I enjoyed 'The War Prayer'. I > was thrilled yet again and also humbled. > > What a wonderful, wonderful man. We lost a great American a year ago. May > he rest in peace. > > Thank you again, Shelley. > > Warren Miller, CPA, CFA > Lexington, Virginia > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:58 AM Shelley Fisher Fishkin < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > One year ago today, on January 23rd, the world lost a gifted actor, a > > brilliant scholar of Mark Twain, and a kind, generous, and caring human > > being. Many of us on this list lost a friend. Hal Holbrook Z”L — May his > > memory be a blessing. > > > > > > =============================== > > Shelley Fisher Fishkin > > Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities; Professor of English, and > > Director of American Studies, Stanford University > > Mail: Department of English, Bldg. 460, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford > > University, Stanford, CA 94305-2087 > > https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley-fisher-fishkin < > > https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley-fisher-fishkin> > > >