Let’s Talk about Me

by Susan Clark

This 320-page remarkable autobiography includes interesting stories of the founding of her beloved Way-cross and Ware County. It has details of her World Wai-n navigator-husband’s capture and treatment as a prisoner of war in Germany after his B-17 bomber lost four of its five motors while bombing Germany.

The author tells multiple funny incidents that happened as she was growing up; attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and Emory University where she earned a Master’s Degree in Spanish. This led to side trips to Mexico in 1945 and Cuba in 1947.

It has stories about her courtship by several young men including her marriage to a farm boy; about sad events she overcame with developing a stronger Christian faith; and about many community services she tackled with amazing success, such as being a leader in bringing an art and history museum that moved a 348-foot long train over a busy state highway for .26 miles called Okefenokee Heritage Center (opened May 31, 1975) and Southern Forest World (opened 1981) on the amazing pine tree whose chemicals are found in over 52,000 by-products.

Through the years, she visited over 36 countries including a round-the-world trip. She served as president for several local service organizations and the Woman’s State Auxiliary of the Medical Association of Georgia.

She said one of the most frightening experiences she had was killing a huge copperhead snake at age 18 while a waterfront counselor at a girl scout camp. She laughs as she says her most daring accomplishment was flying hundreds of feet above the water in Acapulco pulled by a rope attached to a boat.

Editor Jack Williams of the Waycross Journal Herald calls it a “history:’ but Mrs. Clark says that at 92 it’s fun and challenging to put it all together.