Remembering reverend

In the fall of 1959 I enrolled in the Dale Carnegie class held at the Town House Hotel in Kansas City, Kan. One of the instructors was a gentleman named Jim Post, the protestant chaplain of the Kansas Penitentiary in Lansing.

The Rev. Post lived in Kansas City, Kan., and I drove him home a few times after class. We became friends during this period, and he invited me to attend a Carnegie class he conducted at the federal prison in Leavenworth — quite an experience.

Until reading the Rev. Post’s obituary in The Star (10/25, National/Local), I had no knowledge of his whereabouts. The Rev. Post was the chaplain depicted in the book and movie “In Cold Blood,” and his part was played by actor Sheldon Allman.

Edward W. Johnson Sr.
Leawood