Polly Stone Buck
1901 - 2003
Polly Stone Buck was the author of The Blessed Town: Oxford, Georgia at the Turn of the Century, the second volume in the “American Places of the Heart” series published by Algonquin Books. She was also the writer of three other books, Adopted Son of Salem (1971), We Minded the Store: Yale Life and Letters During World War II (1975), and The Master’s Wife: A Warm-Hearted Memoir of Life at Yale (1989), and a regular series published in the Atlanta Constitution, “I Married a Yankee.”
Born and raised in Oxford, Polly Stone graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1924 and remained an active alumna for the rest of her life. She moved to New Haven, Connecticut when she married Yale University Provost Norman S. Buck, where she served for 17 years as the Master’s Wife of Yale’s Branford College. She was the recipient of Yale University’s highest honor, the Yale Medal, for her outstanding contributions to the university. She was also the recipient of the Agnes Scott College Outstanding Alumna Award.
It was a personal tradition of hers to have a tree planted as a memorial to those dear to her when they passed away. One such tree is the Willow Oak on Whatcoat Street in front of the Allen Memorial United Methodist Church, planted in memory of her cousin, Emmalise Stone in 1986. She had another one planted next to it in 1987 for another cousin, Susanne Stone Eady.
Born and raised in Oxford, Polly Stone graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1924 and remained an active alumna for the rest of her life. She moved to New Haven, Connecticut when she married Yale University Provost Norman S. Buck, where she served for 17 years as the Master’s Wife of Yale’s Branford College. She was the recipient of Yale University’s highest honor, the Yale Medal, for her outstanding contributions to the university. She was also the recipient of the Agnes Scott College Outstanding Alumna Award.
It was a personal tradition of hers to have a tree planted as a memorial to those dear to her when they passed away. One such tree is the Willow Oak on Whatcoat Street in front of the Allen Memorial United Methodist Church, planted in memory of her cousin, Emmalise Stone in 1986. She had another one planted next to it in 1987 for another cousin, Susanne Stone Eady.