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William Jewell College: My Camelot
by Ed Chasteen
Donate here. 
I had been a member of the Jewell faculty for only a week when Dr. Hester took me aside. In the fatherly fashion I came to love, he said to me, “You need to find a place to settle down. You don’t have to move around to make your mark.”
Several times over the next few years, I dreamed I had left Jewell. And I would wake up in a cold sweat. Several times I was offered other jobs, once in the very place my wife and I had always said we wanted to live. We told them no. Our three children graduated from Jewell. One now is on the faculty. We still live in the only house we’ve ever owned. The one where the kids grew up and all my students came.
Fresh out of grad school I came to teach at Jewell and live in
Liberty . I fell in love with this place and these people. My book is a love offering to all the students, faculty, staff and towns people I have come to know in these 40 years.
William Jewell College: My Camelot is not for sale in any bookstore. I had 1000 copies printed and delivered to the President’s Office at William Jewell. The college will send a book to any donor to the college who sends $100.00. For $200.00, donors receive two books; for $300.00, three books. And another book for each additional hundred. It is not for sale in any bookstore. I had 1000 copies printed and delivered to the President’s Office at William Jewell. When this first 1000 books have been sent to donors, I will have another 1000 printed, and the process will be repeated. If we can repeat it 10 times, the college will have received one million dollars in donations. And I will have made my mark.
I wrote the book and gave it as a gift to the college. But for that gift to have the value I hope it has, ten thousand friends of the college will each have to send a $100.00 donation to William Jewell Camelot, Office of the President, 500 College Hill, Liberty, MO 64068, or make a donation on-line by clicking here.
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” Asked Robert Browning. “Ask and you shall receive,” says the Bible. I’m asking. Can we do it? We can! Will we do it? I believe we will.
Audacious Asking! For the college we love.
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