Letter from the Dean of Bethel College (Hopkinsville, KY) to Miss Leigh Hightower

On May 19, 1960, three short weeks after my parents were married, the Dean-Registrar of Bethel College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, composed Mom a letter. She had been at Bethel College for her first year of study before continuing on to Marion County General Hospital Nursing School in Indianapolis (to which her family of origin moved in 1957) - making her the first member of her family to attend college.

On a pilgrimage of her past, much like the ones I myself have caused my wife to endure, Mom took Dad on a tour of places and people significant to her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Bethel was one of those places, and Dean Burton and his wife were some of those people. An image of the letter follows.

Enjoy.