APRIL BREAKFAST WITH JOHN WARLEY, '67
Please join fellow Alumni for breakfast with author John Warley, Class of 1967, on Saturday, April 6, 2019, at 8:30 am, at the Springfield Golf and Country Club
Online registration is available until 11:59 pm, Thursday, April 4, 2019. Walk-in attendees will be welcomed at the door. 175 Campaign Members are requested to register in order to have an accurate headcount. Buffet breakfast includes eggs, bacon, hash browns, grits, assorted fruit and pastries, coffee, juice, and tea. Doors open at 8:00. Dress for this event is casual. Autographed copies of John’s history of The Citadel, entitled Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century, are available for purchase during check-out and pick-up at the breakfast. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to club scholarships and charitable activities.
Autographed copies of John’s history of The Citadel, entitled Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century, are available for purchase during check-out and pick-up at the breakfast. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to club scholarships and charitable activities.
John Warley, a native of Florence, S.C., attended The Citadel on a football scholarship and graduated in the class of 1967. While playing on the baseball team in 1966, he struck up a friendship with classmate and teammate Pat Conroy. They roomed together on baseball trips, beginning a 50 year friendship. When Conroy became the first editor of Story River Books, the fiction imprint of the University of South Carolina Press, John’s novel, A Southern Girl, became the first book released by Story River Books.
After taking his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1970, he served in the Army, spent two years in Washington, D.C. as staff counsel to a trade association, then moved to Newport News, Virginia, where he practiced law for 21 years. While there, he served as chairman of the board of the Newport News Housing and Redevelopment Authority, was an active Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow. In 2005, he and his late wife, Barbara, moved to Beaufort, where he lives today. He is the award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. His history of The Citadel, entitled Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century, focuses on the half-century since the retirement of General Mark Clark in 1965. He has authored five published novels: A Southern Girl, Bethesda’s Child,The Moralist, The Moralist II and most recently, The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War. His essay “Lingering at the Doors” was selected by NPR, National Public Radio, for publication in This I Believe on Fatherhood. In 2018, the University of Georgia Press published Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. John’s essay, “One Cadet’s Lamentations,” is included. In 2012, he composed the inscription for The Citadel War Memorial, a project sponsored by his class. That inscription, consisting of 35 words, is etched into marble at the memorial’s entrance and is designed to set the tone for what visitors are about to experience. In 2015, at the request of the committee overseeing the design of the memorial, he wrote a history of the college centered around the wars and conflicts in which Citadel alumni have fought since its founding in 1842. That narrative, “The Citadel at War,” has been etched into the walls to provide visitors with historical context for the sacrifices of the fallen. Located between Summerall Chapel and Mark Clark Hall, this million dollar project opened to the public in October 2017.John remains committed to his alma mater, and he actively supports the Pat Conroy Literary Center to preserve the literary legacy of his great friend.
After taking his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1970, he served in the Army, spent two years in Washington, D.C. as staff counsel to a trade association, then moved to Newport News, Virginia, where he practiced law for 21 years. While there, he served as chairman of the board of the Newport News Housing and Redevelopment Authority, was an active Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow. In 2005, he and his late wife, Barbara, moved to Beaufort, where he lives today.
He is the award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. His history of The Citadel, entitled Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century, focuses on the half-century since the retirement of General Mark Clark in 1965. He has authored five published novels: A Southern Girl, Bethesda’s Child,The Moralist, The Moralist II and most recently, The Home Guard, a Novel of the Civil War. His essay “Lingering at the Doors” was selected by NPR, National Public Radio, for publication in This I Believe on Fatherhood. In 2018, the University of Georgia Press published Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. John’s essay, “One Cadet’s Lamentations,” is included.
In 2012, he composed the inscription for The Citadel War Memorial, a project sponsored by his class. That inscription, consisting of 35 words, is etched into marble at the memorial’s entrance and is designed to set the tone for what visitors are about to experience. In 2015, at the request of the committee overseeing the design of the memorial, he wrote a history of the college centered around the wars and conflicts in which Citadel alumni have fought since its founding in 1842. That narrative, “The Citadel at War,” has been etched into the walls to provide visitors with historical context for the sacrifices of the fallen. Located between Summerall Chapel and Mark Clark Hall, this million dollar project opened to the public in October 2017.
