Grady Randolph

Aunt Jennie,

I was so sorry that health kept me from being with you or attending the funeral. You lost a husband who loved you a great amount. I know he will be missed for I will miss him so much myself.



Horace

Dear Mrs Randolph:

I know that we pass this way just once,and for a short time. However, Grady Randolph,touched more lives and made a difference in the successful outcome of those lives than any other person that I loved and respected.

As you know he made a great difference in my life. He opened the wide door to the methods of becoming a good student. The lessons I learned in his tenth grade class in World History, at Sylvan High, opened the doors to success in the higher levels of education.

His rendering of World History in his class was not the typical recitation of Napoleon, Charlemange and other personalities of Europe , but he esposed the recitation of lost cultures and the mysteries of ancient civilizations.In addition,he taught me the meaning and defination of the word "sticktoativeness"



To the most profound and meaningful Mentor that I encountered in my life travels, I owe my success in the world of Engineering and the Archaeological discoveries of lost cities built by the same mysterious cultures that Mr Randolph first evealed to me in his class.



As I write this note of appreciation to one of my beloved personalities, I can view the book case with a complete 19th century collection of "Prescott' that was a gift from you and Mr. Randolph. I will always treasure them until they go to a museum.



He was always the beloved curmudgion. I will close this farewell with a comment about this great man. He was interviewed a few years ago relative to a story being writtten about one of my archaeological discoveries.In my interview, I had given him credit as the procreator of my interest in Archaelology. The interviewer then contacted Mr. Randolph and asked about our relationship. The great one replied " I taught thousands of students and tried to inspire a sense of history in all of them, I think that it's great that I got through to at least one of them".

We all know that he reached thousands of these students and not just Jim O'Kon. This is a man that changed the life of many people. Goodbye Mr. Randolph, I will never forget you.

And to you Jenny, all my Love.

Jim O'Kon

Mr. Randolph was a genuine intellectual and an excellent teacher who inspired in me a love of history during his World History course at Sylvan Hills High School. Our class of 1955 recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and I deeply regret that Grady Randolph was not able to participate. My deepest sympathy is extended to his family.

Dear Jenny,

Sam and I were saddened to read

of your loss. Please know you haave

our sincere sympathy at this time.

Rachel

I am sad to hear of Grady's death. He was a long time patient and friend. My prayers and thought are with Miss Jennie.



Dr.Foster

I never met Mr. Grady Randolph but he was my 4th cousin through the McCollum line. His nephew, Horace, married my cousin, Martha Sue Box. Our sympathy goes out to the family.

In the mid-sixties, I was a young, single mother intent on finishing my degree. Fortunately, I found the right program at Oglethorpe University and, more fortunately, was privileged to be a student of Grady Randolph. He taught so much more than what was 'on the printed page' and did, indeed, challenge one to think. And now, almost forty years later, I remember him as one of those who influenced me early on.........may he rest in peace.

Mr. Randolph was an outstanding teacher. I knew him at Brown High School from having taken his course in World History in 1948. His emphasis was always on "why people behave as they do."