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sand into Rog's eyes in spite of having been admonished by Barbara to cease and desist before he did just such a thing.  There were no significant aftereffects to this but I can still remember his persistently ignoring his mother and continuing to annoy Rog with the sand.  At Yorktown the incident occurred at home.  Again Chick had undertaken a program of annoying Rog--I don't recall how--and he kept at it as Rog got more and more exasperated with him.  One complication in these affairs was the fact that Chick was both younger and smaller than Rog and this put Rog somewhat behind the 8-ball in combating the situation.  However, on this occasion Chick finally carried it to a point that was beyond Rog's endurance.  Rog simply grabbed him by the shoulders and hurled him clean across the room, where Chick wound up in a heap on the floor, unhurt but considerably chastened.  Nor were there any further incidents as far as I can remember.

I suppose we spent three or four days in Yorktown along with two or three days of traveling and that occupied my second week of vacation.  Thus we spent a very full vacation with our two memorable trips, memorable except as to more details that I wish I could bring back because I know there must have been other things worth writing about happening every day.

In Erie we pursued an active social life in those days, having many friends.  However, the group with whom we identified most closely was the "bridge club gang" as I was sometimes tempted to call them but not in any disrespectful sense because they were truly a fine bunch.  I have two pictures of this group both taken during the war which I'm going to put in here because they represent the crowd as it was in 1941 although possibly taken a year or so later.  Missing are the Reeds, of course, as well as Walter and Maybelle Scarborough, who had been divorced by this time I believe.  The two groups are identical except that in the larger picture we have Charlie and Katherine Surdy in addition to the others.  Also I'd judge that both pictures were taken by Fred Bush, who's missing from them and was quite a photographer.  I think to get the most out of these, I should take each couple and draw a short sketch of them because they were all interesting people and certainly rated pretty much as among our oldest and closest friends.

I'll start at the top of the following page with the large picture.  It was taken at a celebration at the Kahkwa Club where we were throwing a farewell party for Charlie and Katherine Surdy, who were moving to New York.  Charlie was a local official of the Standard Stoker Company who had a plant in Erie and were one of the most successful builders of steam locomotive stokers.  Charlie had just been promoted to a vice-presidency in New York at their headquarters as I recall it.  He was almost apologetic about leaving Erie and all his good friends but said the job was just something that he couldn't