“Woman Tells Story Of Life In Champaign”

An autobiography, “The Other Foot,” by Helen Harry Hayward, UI graduate and former local resident, will be published by Vantage Press, Inc., New York City book publishers.

The author’s daughter is Mrs. Don Sellers, who resides at 704 West California, Urbana.

As Helen Applegate, the author obtained her A.B. degree at UI in 1928. She later did social work with the IERC, priior to becoming a counselor at the State Training School for Girls at Geneva.

The book was conceived while Mrs. Hayward was hospitalized at Burnham hospital with a factured back. She made notes at that time with a hand strapped to a bed board, according to advance notice on the publication released by Vantage Press.

The story deals with the activities, frustrations and small triumphs of the “four, real hell-bent children of a strict Methodist minister, especially concerning Helen, on whom the discipline fell most irksomely,” the publisher’s news release said.

“Papa” in the book is Reverend Frank M. Harry, who resided until his death in 1935 at 35 East springfield avenue, Champaign. The book is dedicated to the author’s mother, Mrs. Emma Cumberland Harry, who died Dec. 23, 1950. She contributed many of the humorous incidents in the volume, the publisher reported.