taken him into every state in the union, into most of inhabited Canada, into Central American countries including Mexico and most of Europe west of the Iron Curtain.

Dr. Kyser is head of the Department of Social Sciences, Northwestern State College of Louisiana at Natchitoches. His driving energy has led him to become a respected historian, writer, lecturer and photographer. A brief intended for this work had not arrived at press time.2

William A. Leary

William A. Leary was born in Panola fifty-eight years ago, but he spent much of his youth in El Paso after attending the Panola grade school, where he worked in a lumberyard, bank, and the post office, during and after high school days. After graduating with the class of 1912 he entered the University of Illinois, only to have that schooling interrupted by two years service in the A. E. F. in France with the 12th Base Hospital, where he and Mack Evans, also in this chapter, served together.

Returning to school at Illinois, he graduated in 1922 with a degree of B. S., having majored in Commerce and Business Administration. He then became associated with Arthur Anderson & Company as a

Panola grade school group in 1906. The boy standing at the left is William A. Leary, now a C. P. A. with the Ethyl Corporation. Others include Jennie Stimpert, Lena Wolf, Floyd Cable, Clyde Klug, Dave Fischer, John Sadler, Carl Dodson, Zip Wolf, Chet Koch, Vic Ward, Ferne Sadler, Tillie Fischer, Frank Wolf and Frank Stimpert. The teacher was Mrs. Annie Ostler Schofield.
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