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entertained thoughts of looking her up in New York sometime and having lunch together since I went down there frequently on business but for one reason or another, I never got around to doing it. And then in 1933, I received news that Doris was dead. She'd died in her first childbirth, a baby girl who would now be 39 years old. I was shocked and saddened beyond measure and I can never get out of my mind the question of whether this would have happened to her if she had married me -- different conditions, different circumstances, different timing. So that is the at first happy and later unhappy story of Doris and me.

   To complete the story entirely, Doug Dean and Mary Yard were married and settled in Erie and I got completely out of touch with them. When I moved to Erie in 1926, I scarcely thought of them, in fact, I'm not sure that I even knew at that time that they were living in Erie. The result of all this was that I failed to get in touch with them. And then after Willie and I were married, I read in the Erie paper that Mary Yard Dean had died and in a day or two, by pure chance, I saw the funeral procession with Doug riding in one of the cars. In my characteristically diffident way, I was afraid I'd waiting too long to look up Doug, nor was I at all sure how he felt about Doris and me, so I never did contact him, preferring to let matters rest where they were. Doug must have left Erie soon afterward as I never saw or heard of him again.
   To return to college, I did amass a good record and made Tau Beta Pi (the engineering Phi Beta Kappa) in my junior year. In my senior year, I was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, which you must have a high average to qualify for and are then voted into the society by your fellow seniors, which is significant in indicating popularity; our Roger is a Phi Kappa Phi brother of mine, having been voted in at Michigan when getting his master's degree. Also, in my senior year, I made Pi Mu Epsilon, the honorary mathematical fraternity. So I wound up belonging to four Greek letter societies where, for awhile, I never expected to belong to any. I was chairman of the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to whom I once gave a talk on Einstein's theory of relativity (in most elementary terms, the only ones I knew). Also, I had a few cartoons published in the college comic magazine, the Orange Peel. Except from the standpoint of scholarship, it was a pretty sparse college career but it served the purpose and from it I think I learned a good deal about life also, some of the lessons bitter.

   Fred Thalman had an acute appendicitis attack while staying with us and on Clyde Barney's advice, I accompanied him home to Rome on the train one night with Fred in agony, the appendix bursting while we were on the train. We rushed him to the hospital in Rome on arrival and they operated on him and saved him but it was poor advice on Dr. Barney's part as Fred might have died. Dr. Barney's judgment was that it would be best for Fred