Bill Walter was a big promoter of the Hennessey community and loved its people, even if he couldn't always remember their names.
When he first returned home in 1977, he said that he drank five cups of coffee around a table at Wong's Restaurant (without a bathroom trip) just so he could hear a guy's name that he should've known without asking. No one ever said it, so he had to ask him.
Bill loved photography and was the newspaper's expert in that department. His collection of cameras were donated to the Hennessey Public Library several years ago, and are still on display.
Another Hennessey graduate donated $3,000 to the library to set up the Barbara and Bill Walter Digitized Hennessey Clipper Collection for research.