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Things now get a little more complicated. The following shot [[below]] was taken from the head table looking down the table to the left. Starting at the left with "Shakespeare" McDonald and going clockwise around the table, we have Marguerite Giblin, Jack Hause, Bill Frank, unknown, Earl Bill, unknown, Joe Neill, unknown, Pat Staley and known but name forgotten. The unknowns are all girls, where the turnover was high.

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Marguerite Giblin was secretary to Whitey and Henry Guy. Jack Hause was my understudy in Industrial Haulage. Bill Frank was one of the top parts specialists under Dixie. Earl Bill handled the Army and Navy locomotive work. Joe Neill was Dixie's successor-to-be. Pat Staley was a statistician who worked on budgets and such stuff and was married to Whitey's sister, Harriet. The girl on the extreme right was quite pretty, a bit on the buxom side, and I think a little strait-laced, but she's sitting next to Handsome Wayne and seemingly having a very good time in one of the other pictures. I note what appears to be the Navy E on the wall in the background and it has three stars, I guess for the subsequent awards; I think this was for our work on the 5-inch 38-caliber gun mounts.

We now move on to a picture of even more complication but of some more memorable people. This is a shot of the other side of the U and looking toward the head table with the flag hanging behind it. At the head table, left to right, we have Frank Sahlman with beer bottle in hand, Dixie Walker looking quite benign, Willard Douds talking to Whitey, Whitey and Marie Carr. At the table that recedes from the camera, we have clockwise starting with the gentleman on the left who resembles Warren Gamaliel Harding: Ralph Beers, Evelyn LeCorchick, Art Packer, invisible lady, C.A. Burleson, Ross Brackett, Ross Gillette, Henry Guy, Don MacLeod, Forie Craton, Winfield D. Bearce, Betty Hopson and Don Carr. The man at the end of the table with back to camera is unrecognizable. The