Alum publishes book of poems
 William P. Jacobs, III, PC 1940, has published a book of poetry and memoirs entitled My Sentiments Exactly. The book consists of 123 pages of Jacobs’ poetry and his recollections, including memories of his service in the US armed forces during WWII.
Incidentally, Jacobs says that during his years in service, he was never assigned where he didn’t run into other PC grads.
In 1939 he attended a New York University Summer Radio Workshop studying, in particular, radio drama; following which he returned to PC to be a student assistant to Professor Hugh Holman, writing and directing student actors in weekly half-hour radio dramas depicting events in South Carolina history. The programs were sent out as recordings to eight stations in SC, NC, and Georgia.
While at PC he earned a major in English and was art director of both PC magazines which preceded Figs and Thistles and the PaC SaC.
Jacobs is a great-grandson and namesake of PC’s founder and son of William P. Jacobs II, who was president of the college from 1935 to 1945. His nickname, P3, was given to him by students, as he was the third William P. Jacobs to have a connection with the College.
A few years after the death of his first wife, Sue, he married Erna Sommer Jacobs, from Hungary. They live at the Clinton campus of South Carolina Presbyterian Retirement Communities. She commutes to Columbia, where she works in the Governor’s Office for Constituent Services.
His book, My Sentiments Exactly, can be bought at PC’s bookstore, The Depot, in downtown Clinton.
In case you cannot get to Clinton to pick up a copy, check William’s web site, http://www.williampjacobs.com. No computer? Write him at Presbyterian Retirement Community, 801 Musgrove St., Unit 83, Clinton, SC 29325.
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