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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy

Dr. Richard Adicks (CHS 1950) is one of the most scholarly
authors Lake City has produced. After graduating from the University
of Florida and Tulane University, he taught at two Florida high schools,
then at Rollins College, Georgia Tech, Africa University (as a Fulbright
lecturer), and for thirty-one years at the University of Central Florida,
where he retired in 1999 as professor emeritus. He has authored
several articles on literature; two books on the history of Oviedo,
Florida; and A Court for Owls, a historical novel about Lewis Powell,
a Confederate soldier from north Florida who played a part in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The Adicks Family reunion in 1951 -
Richard Adicks is on the far left kneeling (see white arrow).

Comments from Dr. Adicks: “Lake City in the 1940s was a
wonderful kaleidoscope of a town. I owe much credit to that place
where I had the chance to play and work and grow on its streets,
wandering on foot and on bicycle, listening to people and learning
from them. There were people like the Rev. Dr. Edwin Fleming
Montgomery Sr., known to all as “Dr. Mont,” mentor and friend to
me and to two or three generations of young folks, and there was the
public library that the Lake City Woman’s Club preserved in the base-
ment of their clubhouse on Lake Isabella, where a shy bookworm of
a kid could dream and let his imagination flourish, and there were
discerning, caring teachers like Fannie Smithson Huntley and Ola
Lee Powell Means and Madge Hutcherson and Sarah Louise
Andrews Rivers, who encouraged and inspired me.”

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