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Harry Learned, a classmate in Engineering at college, changed course completely after graduation and became a minister.

I alluded to a tragedy overtaking Naoma Ellis, the daughter of Mother's friend on Kirk Avenue near McLennan. Naoma married a big, tall, vigorous guy named Marcus Womer. Naoma was also a big girl bursting with health. My recollection is that their first child was retarded; I don't know whether or not they had more children.

Caleb Candee Brown, Jr., better known as Bud, and the younger brother of my friend Dode, was very enamored of a pretty Kentucky emigre who'd moved to Syracuse from Louisville and, it developed, had gone to high school with Willie. Bud was a very ebullient guy and I remember once playing cards with him and Franny Ward (the girl) when he suddenly leaned toward Fran and said enthusiastically, "I want YOU-for the U.S Marines!" But Fran finally married young Ed Rice, heir to the Rice coal and ice fortune (R-ice) and Bud married one of Dr. Flaherty's daughters, Dr. Flaherty being a good friend of my father's and having removed my appendix in 1915. Willie and Fran got together once on one of Willie's trips to Syracuse.

Lastly, I want to record what I think happened to lovely Katherine Knapp, the sister of Phil Knapp who ended in Sing Sing Prison for murder. I infer from a letter of mine to Mother in the mid-twenties, that Kitty had become engaged to Wolcott Wiard, the somewhat unattractive son of the plow company president, but when Phil got into trouble, Wolcott jilted Kitty, the engagement was broken, and Kitty took up nursing. Kitty was one of the loveliest girls I ever knew. We went to school together, I've been in their very fine home, her parents were excellent people, her other brothers and sisters were high grade, I've danced with her time and again at dancing school and at parties, I knew her very very well for years, and all I can say is that I hope she finally married somebody worthy of her; in fact, if the jilting story is correct and I think it is, somebody would have been justified in murdering Wiard, or, at least, beating him to within an inch of his life.

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