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Friday night at the Emporia Public Library, Roger Heineken of the William Allen White Community Partnership introduced Harry Haskell of Guilford, CT.
The photo on the screen is a familiar one of W.A. White seated at desk at The Emporia Gazette.
Harry Haskell tells about his grandfather, Henry Haskell, seen in the photo on the screen. (Family resemblance, don’t you think?)
Harry Haskell told about the beginnings of the Kansas City Star and about the newspaper men who worked there. His grandfather, Henry Haskell, ran the paper in the ’30s and ’40s and was a close friend of William Allen White.
Researching his book, Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds, Harry Haskell found quite a bit of witty, personal and political correspondence between his grandfather and White.
If you haven’t already heard his interview by Kansas Public Radio’s Laura Lorson, which aired on Friday morning, you can listen here.
We had 21 attend Mr. Haskell’s presentation last night. Unfortunately we were up against an ESU basketball game. The date for Harry’s appearance was dictated by his schedule in the area from his home in Guilford, CT which lies on Long Island Sound.
In his effort to tailor his presentation for Emporia, Harry focused on the long-standing friendship between his grandfather and White. Haskell used passages from personal correspondence to show the personality differences of these two friends.
Of all the people White knew well, Sallie White asked Henry J. Haskell to deliver the eulogy at William Allen White’s funeral.
Katherine Wright Haskell Fountain restored
http://www.oberlin.edu/newserv/07sep/fountain.html