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1) I find that I never gave Doris the sister pin, not because I was afraid it would hurt her but because I felt it would indicate a depth of feeling which I did not have. What I did do in the spring of 1924, was tell her that my feelings were too indeterminate for me to ask her to wait for me, and she herself made the final break in a letter to me after I'd gone to Schenectady. In no sense do I imply criticism of Doris. I was older than she and I was the one who should have realized I was misleading her; I was 22 and she was still 19 when it ended. I was glad when she forgave me. I find also that I did see Doris again after we parted in Boston the evening of July 5th, 1924. I saw her several times at church when I was home for weekends and she acted friendly and normal toward me. Also, when Willie and I became engaged, she wrote me a lovely letter wishing us well. Her death in 1935, when she still was only 30, seems to me to have been utterly unfair; she was a wonderful girl and she deserved better, far, far better. As I look back upon my early years, Doris is the girl whom I remember with the greatest sadness and regret.

2) Doug Dean and Mary Yard did not settle in Erie but in Pittsburgh which accounts for my not looking them up when I went to Erie. Evidently, Mary died in Pittsburgh and was brought back to Erie for burial, and it was then that I happened to see the funeral procession.

3) I find that I kept in contact with Louie Neill sporadically after graduation. I tried to get her to go on a date with Del Quammen and me when I brought him home one weekend in the spring of 1925 but she begged off because it was during Holy Week and Louie was a very strict Episcopalian; so I got Dode Brown instead, she also being an Episcopalian but more liberal. And when Willie came to Syracuse during the 1925 Christmas holidays to visit us while I was home from Schenectady for about a week, Louie and Rog Casler and Willie and I went dancing at the Hotel Syracuse one evening.

4) I kept in touch with Rog Casler up through 1930 and asked him to be my best man in 1927 but he was unable to make it. I saw him in Philadelphia and New York while there on business and we corresponded but at infrequent intervals as Rog was a poor correspondent.

5) Bill McClennan was a delegate to Star Island in 1924 rather than 1923, when Gladys Timmerman and I were the only delegates from May Memorial Church.