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consisted, as he knew it would, of requests for extra spending money. Mother suspected that that was what my Morse Code messages were all about but she couldn't prove it because we refused to teach her the code.

He was generous not just with money but with time. He always had time to answer our questions. One night he left Henry Ford alone in the living room while he read us a bedtime story. Henry had a long wait because that night, instead of reading his favorite author Jack London, he read us [[italics]]Dracula[[/italics]] with such spine-tingling force that it was hours before I drifted off to sleep.

He spent most of his working hours in the lab that GE built to his specifications behind our home. There he spent long hours working with a dozen or more engineers. But even there he never missed a chance to answer questions brought to him by hoards of students from Union College. He made himself one of them--sharing their cults, joining a social fraternity, rarely missing an athletic game and even establishing a student extension course that assigned engineering students some of the specific problems being worked out in his lab.

He recommended a broad education to all his students, once writing: "I am strongly of the opinion that a broad education, a good general knowledge of English, literature, history and natural sciences, and possibly at least one other language, is of far more importance and value, for the future success of the engineering student, than instruction in the numerous de-
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tails of his special profession...which the student could learn just as easily and often better after graduation in his engineering practice."

Getting Dad away from his associates at the lab was always difficult but he could be persuaded to spend late evenings at our cabin at Camp Mohawk. He loved the outdoors and was surrounded by favorite plants and pets. Mother said he was able to make friends with animals as easily as he made friends with people. At Camp he liked to crouch in a canoe, with his papers spread on a board across the gunnels, and float there for hours, working with a slide rule. In fact it was at Camp Mohawk that he developed the scheme to produce artificial lightning and later the first effective lightning arrester.

At Camp he loved to play cards. Poker was his favorite game and, although he played for small stakes, he gave the impression of taking it all very seriously. If a player failed to contribute his ante, he always knew who was negligent and could even tell the order in which the chips had been thrown in. He was a tough opponent because he could remember exactly how many cards each player had drawn, who had opened the pot, and so on. He called his poker club "The Society for the Equalization and Distribution of Wealth."

On October 26, 1923 he was referred to as the "Supreme Court" of General Electric and as the "wizard of electricity" to the whole world. To us he was Dad and our family continues to draw strength from his memory.
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[[handwritten text]]--Above from a 1973 G.E. Monogram[[/handwritten text]]