Sallad Dayes

About the Book

Four Seniors (two Rho-I brothers, two independents girls) are a special group at Colony College: Smit Smith is bright handsome, a smartass. Ditto FATs = Francis Alan Thomas, a brother “beyond silly blood.” Both think Smit’s dead father renders supra-sensory aid. Smit’s in love with Mandy McCabe (who may be pregrant)—and “back at you.” Fats and Kelly Smith (no relation to Smit) are tall, red-headed. All four are trying “to get enganged” and agree to wait for sex—not easy for college kids. (Tip: By the barest margin only Smit is not a virgin.) See them save Benny twice, deliver a baby, find $80,000, save the honest president, resurrect an old rite. “Nine yea,”

About the Author

“In 1905, when cross-faith marriages were rare, my mother, daughter of a Baptist minister, married the grandson of a Catholic doctor. He’d finished and enlistment in the US Cavalry below Canada. I was the 8th of 9 children. We all went to one-room schools, helped on the family farm. I served 3 years in WWII, started college in San Francisco, finished a BA at UKC, an Med at KU, a PhD at UMKC, taught in France, Panama, Australia. Married a lovely Polish girl: we had 3 children, 6 bright grandchildren. I wrote Antic Creedoolies and Sallad Dayes. Never lived in Amherst.”