Talk:William Spratling

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Did Spratling actually graduate from Auburn?

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I read he was a dropout, short of only a few credits in math to graduate, though, in fact he'd been teaching some courses at the school while an undergraduate? He may conceivably have gotten his degree later, but perhaps didn't have it when he first moved to Birmingham, then New Orleans?

My concern is based on the fact that The Silver Gringo (cited below) page 6, states "Spratling left Auburn withuot a degree in 1921 (he lacked a few credits in mathematics) and took a job as a draftsman with an architectural firm in Birmingham. A year later he went to New Orleans as an adjunct professor in the School of Architecture at Tulane University and moved to the French Quarter."

I presume that the following full-fledged academic Spratling biographies (both mentioned in the original article) may have further information:

Taylor D. Littleton, [[The Color of Silver: William Spratling His Life
and Art]],Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000

and

Joan Mark, The Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2000

P.S. Sorry about the hideous formatting above. What someone should do is to add a "cite a source wizard" button to the edit pages, which brings up a box where the amateur Wikist can then plug in the medium, author, title, ISBN (if known), date of publication, etc. Then having done so, the citation will appear neatly on the screen, instead of the mishmash and mess I have created after a fierce struggle. This is definitely not a bumbling, old person friendly, interface. Haaaruumpf!!

And you need a "WikiProject: Dropouts" maybe -- there are so many of them, and they feel so awful, they need a WikiProject to give them hope in life. Haaruumpf!!

FurnaldHall (talk) 23:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]