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Sam Prater
b. 1903
Biography
Activities: Literary Society ’18.. “What’s the use of being good?
It didn’t get me nuthin’.” [1921] At the desk in a studious attitude; the story says he had been trying since May, 1921, to invent a way for school children to play truant and not get caught. [1921] “I, Sam Prater, leave my ‘dry wit’ and ‘long sought foolishness’ to Floyd Reed.” [1921] Mr. Sullivan (in Chemistry): “Sam, what is density?” Sam Prater: “I can’t define it, but I can cite an example.”
Details
- Birth Year
- c. 1903
- Class
- Senior
- School
- Poplar Bluff High School
Birth year is estimated from the yearbook class level, not a recorded fact.
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