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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

Did you know? .. .Local attorney Bruce Robinson’s father was the first principal at Melrose
Park Elementary.. .All these CHS graduates became varsity head football coaches: Crocket Farnell,

Eddie Joe Long, Foster Milton, O’Neal Hill, Fred Rozelle, Wink Criswell, Gene Cox, Faris
Brannen, Danny Green, Donny Boyette, and probably others. . .Old Tigers Captain Doug
Littlefield has announced the next meeting for Wednesday, February 2, a noon luncheon at the

Wayside Restaurant.. .and Karlyn Ganzel, a Lake City junior student in 1973, was an honor student,
yearbook editor, and “first chair” saxophonist in the school band. She also placed second in the

nation in school-girl discus throwing.
JFK pallbearer.. .There has been a persistent rumor that a Lake City-connected man was

one of the military pallbearers at President Kennedy’s funeral. If you have information on that please
call 755-8183.

The Atypical Transient Doctor

November 30,1993

“The Atypical Transient Doctor”. . .That is what Sam T. Ellis, a local Veterans’
Administration physician called himself in his autobiographical book back in 1977. Sam was a

“transient” because he liked to transfer from hospital to hospital around the country with the VA
system. He called himself “atypical” because he had done things not done by ‘"typical” doctors: he

played in a band, built his own home, was a championship little league baseball coach, golfed 36
holes of golf some days and never used a cart, and he never watched television. When Sam was

killed in traffic accident while driving his daughter to college, he had already written his own
obituary: “This man was the father of 13 honest, talented, unselfish, well-mannered and well-liked

children - and an atypical transient doctor as long as he lived.”
Fuller’s Fulminations ... Fuller Warren was Florida’s governor from 1949-53 but 13 years

before that he was a columnist for - who else - the Lake City Reporter. His column was called
“Fuller’s Fulminations”. He had interesting opinions on every subject. On Florida politics: “Nobody
understands it. Just draw straws or go into a seance. Your guess is as good as mine.” On his first

venture into politics as a young man: “I ran a little less that last.” On his “strange” brother: “He has

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