Each month, The Kentucky Explorer magazine receives literally scores of letters from our faithful readers. Whenever possible, we try to publish as many of them as possible in the 12 pages we have set aside for "Letters to the Editor."

Morgan County
Students Identified
Dear Editor:
In the March 2003 edition of The Kentucky Explorer, on page 105, there was a photo of some Morgan County students. The same picture was used in October 1996 in the Licking Valley Courier. These names might aid in identifying the students.
The background in the photo is the old, red brick, Matthew T. Scott Junior Collegiate Institute built in 1904-05 and dedicated by former vice president Adlai Steven-son, friend of the Scott family in Illinois. Those identified are, back row, l-r: Fred Coffee; Lawrence Cottle; Delbert L. Price (1917-1944), brother of Anna Jean Allen and Mrs. Helen Price Stacy; Ben Vansant; Buford Turner; Virgil Wright; and Robert Williams. Middle row, l-r: Louise Johnson, Nell Caskey, Christine Ad-ams, Hazel Elam, Pauline Stamper (Mrs. Arnold McKenzie does not think it is her picture, as she said she was never in Miss McClure's class), Winsor Lacy, and Helen Clarinda McClure. Front row, l-r: Russell Baldwin, Asa Morton Nickell, Homer Craft, Denzil Fannin, Sherman McKenzie, Junior Cottle, and Arthur Potts Wells.
Dr. Helen Price Stacy
555 Prestonsburg Street
West Liberty, KY 41472

Article Brought Flood
Of Memories
Dear Editor:
On July 4, 1939, my brother, Clarence Corder, brought me to Mt. Carmel High School located in the Lawson community of Breathitt County. We arrived about 9:00 in the morning. After parking his car across the Kentucky River, and walking the old swinging bridge, we climbed the hill to the campus, where he had gone to high school. Many precious memories went through his head. My memories were just beginning.
Brother Clarence took me up to the school office and turned me over to Miss Lela G. McConnell. Dr. McConnell had founded the high school in 1925, on land that Green and Cora Lawson had donated for the church and school. I remember him saying to her, "We have no money to pay his tuition." Miss McConnell replied, "If he is as good a student as you were, we welcome him to our school."
Another student about my age, Paul Major, showed me to my room in the boys' dorm, where I quickly settled in to begin my stay at Mt. Carmel. From there we went to find Mr. R. L. Swauger, the architect and carpenter, who planned and did much of the building of Mt. Carmel. We found Mr. Swauger working on Miss McConnell's cottage. The faculty had decided that the founder and president should have her own dwelling house. Today, this same house has been remodeled and modernized, and it is the home in which President and Mrs. Eldon Neihof live.
The friendly Mr. Swauger welcomed me to the campus work force and asked me if I knew how to paint. He knew that I needed to work to help with my tuition. When I told him that I would do my best at the job, he told Paul Major to go and help me find some work clothes over in the basement of the administration building, then known as "The Mission Barrel." We selected a pair of bib overalls and a long-sleeved shirt for me to begin my paint job on Miss McConnell's house.
While looking for my paint clothes, I saw two young ladies making ice cream in the basement of the main building. This ice cream was for a spe-cial treat on the Fourth of July. These college ladies had walked from Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute, then located out at Vancleve, in order to make ice cream and join the Mt. Carmel folks for dinner. The summer day was beautiful with no sign of a storm anywhere. The next day was one that changed the lives of hundreds of people in Eastern Kentucky.
One of the young ladies who made the homemade ice cream was Elsie Booth. Along with eight others, Elsie was drowned in the cloudburst flood that destroyed the Bible School that same night. I will never forget her face. That face, pictured in The Kentucky Explorer July/August 2002 with the article Elsie Booth Is The Rose That Blooms Beyond The Grave, brought instant memories flooding to my mind.
Her beautiful life and testimony had made an impression wherever she went.
John W. Corder
1043 Brook Crest Drive
Mason, OH 45040-1408
Editor's Note: John Walter Corder was drafted into World War II while he was in high school. When his classmates were graduating, he was in training in England for the D-Day invasion of Europe June 6, 1944, at Normandy. God spared his life several times from what looked like certain death and brought him safely back to the U. S.