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way about her that rather took hold of me. "Joe" and Mac are old roommates from test days and they did most of the talking while Helen and I listened. I soon observed that Joe is no mean humorist when it comes to dry, subtle wit, and to hear the banter, particularly an argument on roses, was good. We left there about 11 PM and went to Mac's room at the hotel where we had a couple of drinks and at Mac's suggestion arranged a party for tomorrow night. Mac lined up two of his sisters-in-law and they lined up two of their friends, while Joe agreed to get Nicholson, another Chicago Office man - so I arrived home at the Chi Psi House about midnight to find Doc in bed but Prout missing. To bed myself.

Schenectady, N.Y.,
Thursday, June 22, '39
This was one strenuous day! Up at 6:45 AM and down to the Van Curler for breakfast with Doc Ferguson and Prout, the latter telling us of some of his servicing experiences in the Texas oil fields, where your customer is 450 miles away, and you have to handle him like he was in the next block. We were on deck at Rice Hall at 8:30 AM for the opening of the program. 

The morning session was put on by West Lynn and covered instruments, time switches, instrument transformers, watthour meters, demand meters, and tungars. I gained a healthy respect for the meter Dept. where they have an $8,000,000 watthour meter business alone and that is only 41% of their production. Time switches, that we would probably ignore, amount to $750,000 annually with the business growing fast. The River Works took over after a 15 minute recess at 10:30 AM and we