T. Willard Hunter interviewed in Daily Bulletin story from 2003
Bus drivers may never get anywhere but Claremont author does with latest works
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) - Thursday, June 26, 2003
Author: DIANA SHOLLEYSTAFF WRITER
When he was a kid, author T. Willard Hunter thought about being a COWBOY, or a COWBOY or a bus driver.
Being a bus driver really intrigued him.
"I was so impressed. They have so much power," said Hunter, a resident of Pilgrim Place in Claremont. "They would step on the brake and that big bus would stop, then with his hand he'd make the door open with a "hhchchssss.' He was always going somewhere. Then my father said to me, "Son, but bus drivers never get anywhere.' But they help others get places, I thought."
Hunter gave up on the idea of being a bus driver, but never on the metaphor and that's the concept he plays on when he titled his new book, "Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A rendezvous with the Twentieth Century.
The book, which came out in January, takes the reader on a journey through one man's life, and the people he's met and the universe of his time.
Hunter, 88, has experience in many facets of life including a syndicated columnist in Illinois and California, college fund-raiser and minister.
He met and became friends with such entertainment and political personalities as Richard Nixon, Jerry Voorhis, Joel McCrea and Charles Lindbergh, his boyhood hero. Lindbergh is the focus of his second book, "The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh."
"One of my high school teachers told me I had a talent for writing and I chose to believe it," Hunter laughed.
Hunter received a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Carleton College. He then went to Harvard Law School for two years with political aspiration, but got the calling from a higher power and finished his education at Andover Newton Theological School.
Hunter became part of the religious philosophy, World Changing through Life Changing and started a ministry that would last 46 years.
"I learned that you can't remake society until you remake people, you know what I mean," Hunter said. "Can't make a good omelet with bad eggs. So first I changed myself, sought moral and personal purity then made restitution, sent the hotel towels back and such."
Hunter kept up his cleaver wit as he revealed a section of his book dealing about time he spent in Washington D.C.
"We're were there trying to make Christians out of congressmen. Boy, did we have our work cut out for us," he said smirking. "We got a few."
On a solemn note he explains about his personal battle with manic depression or bipolar syndrome and about losing a child to it.
Hunter lives at Pilgrim Place with wife Mary Louise. The couple has two living children Tom and Dr. Willard M.
Hunter has another book in him, possible several, and hope he gets the chance to write it.
"Maybe a joke book, "Stories From the cutting Room Floor,' or some such book," he said. "I'm proud of this book. It took me 10 years to write it and I'm proud of it."
Diana Sholley can be reached at (909) 483-8542 or by e-mail at d_sholley@dailybulletin.com.
Who: T. Willard Hunter What: "Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A Rendezvous with the Twentieth Century."
Cost: $19.95 Available at Borders, The Huntley Bookstore at The Claremont Colleges, online at Amazon.co. or from the author at www.twillard.com
Section: Upland/Claremont
Record Number: 1478865
(c) 2003 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Media NewsGroup, Inc. by NewsBank, Inc.
Being a bus driver really intrigued him.
"I was so impressed. They have so much power," said Hunter, a resident of Pilgrim Place in Claremont. "They would step on the brake and that big bus would stop, then with his hand he'd make the door open with a "hhchchssss.' He was always going somewhere. Then my father said to me, "Son, but bus drivers never get anywhere.' But they help others get places, I thought."
Hunter gave up on the idea of being a bus driver, but never on the metaphor and that's the concept he plays on when he titled his new book, "Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A rendezvous with the Twentieth Century.
The book, which came out in January, takes the reader on a journey through one man's life, and the people he's met and the universe of his time.
Hunter, 88, has experience in many facets of life including a syndicated columnist in Illinois and California, college fund-raiser and minister.
He met and became friends with such entertainment and political personalities as Richard Nixon, Jerry Voorhis, Joel McCrea and Charles Lindbergh, his boyhood hero. Lindbergh is the focus of his second book, "The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh."
"One of my high school teachers told me I had a talent for writing and I chose to believe it," Hunter laughed.
Hunter received a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Carleton College. He then went to Harvard Law School for two years with political aspiration, but got the calling from a higher power and finished his education at Andover Newton Theological School.
Hunter became part of the religious philosophy, World Changing through Life Changing and started a ministry that would last 46 years.
"I learned that you can't remake society until you remake people, you know what I mean," Hunter said. "Can't make a good omelet with bad eggs. So first I changed myself, sought moral and personal purity then made restitution, sent the hotel towels back and such."
Hunter kept up his cleaver wit as he revealed a section of his book dealing about time he spent in Washington D.C.
"We're were there trying to make Christians out of congressmen. Boy, did we have our work cut out for us," he said smirking. "We got a few."
On a solemn note he explains about his personal battle with manic depression or bipolar syndrome and about losing a child to it.
Hunter lives at Pilgrim Place with wife Mary Louise. The couple has two living children Tom and Dr. Willard M.
Hunter has another book in him, possible several, and hope he gets the chance to write it.
"Maybe a joke book, "Stories From the cutting Room Floor,' or some such book," he said. "I'm proud of this book. It took me 10 years to write it and I'm proud of it."
Diana Sholley can be reached at (909) 483-8542 or by e-mail at d_sholley@dailybulletin.com.
Who: T. Willard Hunter What: "Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A Rendezvous with the Twentieth Century."
Cost: $19.95 Available at Borders, The Huntley Bookstore at The Claremont Colleges, online at Amazon.co. or from the author at www.twillard.com
Section: Upland/Claremont
Record Number: 1478865
(c) 2003 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Media NewsGroup, Inc. by NewsBank, Inc.
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