Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel writer who has recently written “Landing in my Present,” her journey retracing her father’s war time experiences in Indian and China. This feature originally appeared in the Avalanche-Journal in April 2021.

In 1939, Ray Charles Walker (Charlie) from Plainview, entered the recently opened Texas Technological Community College to pursue a degree in agriculture, one of four degrees originally offered. He was an unlikely student, coming from a farming family where he plowed the land behind a mule and later drove the first tractor in the area purchased by his father, who had also been the first t

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