Dear editor,
The attitude in Topeka toward the arts is the same I encountered when trying to get deferred status to finish art school in the early 1950s. Was told the country needed engineers, not damn artists and if I continued in school I would be drafted!
I even had won a Sandzen art scholarship for 1955, through hard work.
Though stressful, I did go back to school but had to drop out from a lingering head injury from a rollover car accident that summer. It took four years of treatment and therapy in a closed ward hospital, before I was signed out by my mother, God bless her.
Right now I am at Tara Gardens recovering from an emergency surgery from last December and am under excellent care and getting good food.
Sadly, my place, unattended, has been looted of tools and other things. Why when somebody’s down they get taken advantage of, I don’t know.
I’ve heard there are those who follow funeral notices, so to be free to loot houses of those attended.
We really need the Ten Commandments more than ever today!
Sincerely,
Jim Brownrigg,
Iola, Kan.
Letter to the editor — April 13, 2015
