Trimble deprecated his own talents and role on the team. But every year around this time I start thinking about them-Salty and Satchel and Bud and Rolleigh and Harold Selby and Dan Reed and the rest-and I wonder if they are still as embarrassed as I am at getting beat by Bryant.” “I don’t hear much from the members of the 1960 Bauxite Miner football team-except for Salty, who handles my insurance, and always calls around my birthday to remind me that I am one year closer to dying. I earn three squares a day just sitting in a chair, typing.
Satchelbutt Wilmoth married his high school sweetheart ditto Bud Richards, who, last I heard, was running a very used car lot out on the highway and serving on the Bauxite School Board. Salty Crowson is selling insurance and raising a short ton of kids over in Conway, and Jonesy is a college professor with a highly praised book under his belt. “Most of us are doing pretty well, I guess. At the end, readers could divine that the anonymous teacher was Trimble’s mama.Īnother long magazine piece was about the Bauxite Miner football team of 1960, the camaraderie and the enduring effect of the team’s loss to its chief rival, the Bryant Hornets. One piece, which was a deep account of the success of a Bauxite English teacher in turning Bud, the leading jock on the Miners team, into a Shakespeare fanatic, recounted in detail how the teacher assigned Bud to play Macbeth and infected him with the tragic psychological dilemmas of the mad king. And he’s in a better position than I am.” When the Dallas Observer newspaper in 2012 reported his firing by the Record-Chronicle publisher, it quoted Trimble as saying: “It was just a difference of opinion. has gained the lasting respect and admiration of his readers and colleagues alike.” Three years earlier, ironically, Trimble had received an award from the chamber, which earned him a unanimous resolution of praise from the Texas House of Representatives, proclaiming that Trimble’s “ability to inform, entertain and engage his readers. Six years later, he got himself fired by the newspaper’s publisher when he refused to retract an editorial mildly criticizing the Denton Chamber of Commerce for some stand by the chamber, of which Trimble’s newspaper and its publisher were members.
In his last job, as an editorial writer for the Denton Record-Chronicle in 2006, Trimble received an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for writing the best editorials in the nation that year.
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