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derived from these flights. 

About this time, another friend who has influenced me in my work appeared on the scene, Helen Hughes Dulany. She was pretty, petite, always exquisitely dressed. I knew her by reputation, a successful industrial designer who had done exciting things for General Electric and the Chase Brass and Copper Corporation in the Chicago World's Fair. When I met her in San Francisco, she was on her way to Honolulu to do some work for another firm that retained her, Hawaiian Pine. She returned to San Francisco and came to dinner. The conversation somehow turned to Yosemite Valley. Helen said she had never seen it but hoped to do so the next time she came West. Leon promptly said, "But since you are so near, you might as well go now. Ill get a car and chauffeur. Dorothy loves Yosemite and she can go with you." Like millions of visitors to the Valley, Helen was all but overcome by the beauty of the scenery. We stayed at the famous Ahwanee Inn, in which I had a special interest.