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Sojourn at Stevenson College
Campus Tales from a Bygone Era

Robert E. Kendig
224 pages
ISBN 978-0-9755910-6-2, trade paperback $15.95 USD

Stevenson College was a church-affiliated, four-year liberal arts institution, which in 1937 meant that if you were of the same religious persuasion that governed the college, you possessed the basis for social acceptance in the community until you proved otherwise. Since I was not so religiously persuaded, I was suspect from the first day.

A delightful, nostalgic, and witty collection of episodes about a fictional college campus and its environs in the late 1930s, narrated by a young history professor on his first teaching assignment. Characters from President J. Armistead MacIlwaine to the chair's secretary, Mrs. Garber, from the affable landlady Mrs. Quick to the bumbling Police Chief Bridwell to the denizens of the Eagle Tonsorial Parlor populate a landscape that anyone familiar with small towns or small colleges will readily recognize. On the lively stage of Stevenson College plays out a full act of the human comedy that will bring smiles and insights to readers young and old.