Scruggs, Anderson M. (Anderson McLaren), 1897-1955.

Anderson McLaren Scruggs, dentist, educator, and poet, was born 18 February 1897, in West Point, Georgia, and died 28 January 1955, in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the Atlanta-Southern Dental College (1925), which became the Emory University School of Dentistry (1944), where he taught for thirty years (1926-1955). He was the author of four books of poetry, GLORY OF EARTH (1933), RITUAL FOR MYSELF (1941), I HEAR THEM IN THE DAWN (1948), and WHAT SHALL THE HEART REMEMBER? (1951) and published poems in several anthologies.