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Summer band practices
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By NE AL ULMER
TheHeartofTexas (H.O.T.)
Writers group was treated by
one ot Brady’s own authors at
their regular monthly meeting
held last Thursday evening at
the Brady Housing Authority
meeting room.
Harold Byler, a 1946 gradu-
ate of Brady High School anda
1950 graduate of Texas A&M,
is the author 17 published
books on a variety of subjects,
including tennis, sailing, poker,
genealogy and more.
"I loved writing the sailing
books ("Sailing Around the
World the Wrong Way," Vol-
umes! VII)," he said, after the
meeting. "Both my wife and I
arc sailboat enthusiasts.
"The poker book, ‘Memoirs
of a Poker Player,' has been
the most successful. I wrote
that book on a lark, in which I
wrote in two weeks."
In learning a little bit more
about Byler, a person can un-
derstand why he has written of writing. One good place to _______
about some of his varied top- start is to do an outline. Your to Cruise for $50/Day," he co- after the meeting. " I hat was Those registering for the kindergarten class must be five
ics. He told the group of about outline then becomes your table wrote with his wife, Jan They an end of an era, the 40s. The years of age by Sept. 1 .Child care is available from the hours
15 people that when writing a ofcontents. He suggested con- went on a cruise in which Byler school also had character. It of8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
book, you should write about tinuing to outline, but to start gave two lectures a week of was a land grant school and To learn more, contact Open Hearts director, Kim Coleman,
something you know, writing paragraphs of those one-and-a-halfhours in length, strictly military. The school at 597-0338.
Byler graduated from col- topics in your outline. Then The cruise line paid for their population then was 5,000 as
lege with a degree in electrical you’ve got your book written, room and board for the dura- their enrollment and now it is
engineering, but went straight Once you have your manu- tion of the cruise. The lecture 45,000. H istor- hocl-e on calo
into the military serving as the script written, he next suggests he gave was about poker. "It was the cheapest school IStUI j DUURS sale
Security Agency Liaison Offi- to start editing. “I’ve never seen The hardest book Byler I could find at the time. My 1 • . ..
cer. Second Infantry Division one (book) that didn't have wrote was "A Missionary’s total expenses came to $245 during summer months
in the Korean War. After serv- mistakes in it,” he stated. "The Daughter in India The auto- per semester." P
Standard-Herald photo by Neal Ulmer
HAROLD C. BYLER, JR. (standing) speaks to the Heart of Texas Writers Group
on suggestions of how to write a book and writing styles during last Thursday's monthly
meeting held at the Brady Housing Authority. Byler has 17 published books and is work-
ing on his 18th book entitled “Black Life in Small Town, West Texas."
Summer band practices for all incoming Brady High School
freshmen band members will begin July 28 and end July 30.
These three practices will be used to teach marching fun-
damentals, according to FBBB director Butch Crudgington
“Please meet at the old high school band hall and wear ten-
nis shoes," Crudgington said, adding that instruments will not
be needed.
Practice for all high school band members will begin Aug.
2 and instruments will be needed at that time.
Practices the week of Aug. 2-6 will be from 8 a.m. to noon
and 4-5:30 p.m.
Open Hearts Preschool/
Child Care to hold registration
Kindergarten, preschool and child care registration for Open
Hearts will be held Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 2 and 3, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Registration will take place at 401 South Blackburn at the
First United Methodist Church in Brady. Parents should bring
a copy of their child's immunization record. Also, those who
have already registered should stop by to pick up and/or fill out
any remaining paperwork.
Open Hearts accepts children from the ages of zero to six
Next, he touched on the style email letters, people standing and I istening years. Children must be three-years-old and potty trained to
One of Byler’s books, "How to him talk about his books enter the preschool program.
6 eam "L after the meeting. “That was
HONORARY MEMBER—Ed Hernandez (left).
President of HOT Writers Group, presents Harold C.
Byler, Jr. (center) an honorary membership in the Writ-
ers Group after his visit with the group Thursday night.
Also present is programming director Maurice Mallow.
ing in the military, he worked best thing is to get someone else
in management at General to look it over, read it and edit
Electric for 20 years. He was it for you. Look as to who will
also an Associate Professor of read the book. Editing takes
Physics at Syracuse University a lot of time to go through it
for five years and has also been many times. Spend lots and
a professional gambler for 15 lots of time editing, for if you
years, don’t, it won’t be successful."
In his speech, he suggested Byler then covered copy-
many other things including to right, photos and publishing. It
have a purpose whether it is was suggested that ifyou had a
to entertain, inform or educate, lot of photos, to be sure to put
biography of Ruth Cordell,” in Byler has written two gene- The Heart of Texas Historical Museum is offering a special
which he was a ghost writer. “It alogy books, one with his wife "Summer Sale" for the McCulloch County History Book Vol-
was the hardest book for me to about her family, "A Story” ume III.
write ! wrote the book from let- and his own family, "Texas Regular price is $40, but the sale price during the months of
ters and it included a lot of other Settlers". June, July and August will be $30.
things. It took approximately They are currently writing Books may be purchased from the museum, the Brady
nine months for me to write, a book, “Black Life in Small Standard-Herald, Texas Tumbleweed and June Long by calling
It was also the most interesting Town, West Texas." They are 325-597-1047.
book 1 have written," he stated, in the process of gathering in- For mail orders: mail check to Heart of Texas Museum, P.O.
The books he enjoyed the formation and doing research. Box 48, Brady, Tex. 76825. Enclose $5 per book for postage
most were the sailing books Before the meeting conclud- and handling.
and the poker book. ed, Ed 1 lernandez and Maurice The Volume III was compiled by the late Wayne Spiller, noted
On the table in the meeting Mallow presented Byler with author from McCulloch County.
room, Byler had laid out eight an honorary membership to the
different books. The one he sold Heart of Texas Writers.
the most copies of that night
was “Life at Aggieland in the If you would like to join
40s.” the writers group or for more
“I often told people stories information please contact
about my time spent in Ag- program chair Maurice Mal-
gieland," he said to several low at 325-597-2373.
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Stewart, James E. Brady Standard-Herald and Heart of Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 21, 2010, newspaper, July 21, 2010; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1669229/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.