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Upon reading the first paragraph, I thought: "Why do I bother to write, when Aunt Alma can do it so much more entertainingly?"
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F E R N B A N K N E W S
Vol. no. ? Count for yourself July 1958
The Editor regrets that this number is behind schedule, like PHYTOMORPHOLOGY, and hopes that the contributors will not withdraw their support and send their contributions to other journals. The Editor was requested to send her botanical contributions to the American Journal of Botaniy because Phytomorphology was behind, but she is continuing with her favorite journal even if behind. The fundamental difficulty is that there are not enough hours in the day for the Editor to pursue her work on Ferns, get a modicum of sleep (a generous modicum), enjoy the Excellent Society of Woods Hole, get an occasional swim (and this very moment she is warmer than she has been all summer, and is considering stopping this work and take a swim), and then have time for this important publication. The swim is over and it was most refreshing.
WEATHER. Warm just at this minute, but it has been incredibly cold in June and early July. It took two sweaters to keep the Editor warm enough, at the Botany Bldg. In early June there was so much rain and so little sun that all buildings needed to be heated; the Botany Bldg. has no heat but the sun. By the first of July it was warm enough to go swimming - uncommonly late to initiate the swimming season. There has been less rain in July, but a great deal of fog. The Algae class found it a poor season for collecting.
ARRIVALS. Mrs. Evans arrived at Fernbank, via the Bach Festival, May 18th.
Miss Green and Mrs. Reichmann, also Gipsy, arrived at Vagabond House two days earlier.
Miss Reed and AG brought the Editor and her possessions, so far as she remembered them, to Woods Hole, June 3rd. Miss Reed and AG stayed two days, the former gardening vigorously and planting the border; AG sickled the grass which had made an excessive growth in the cold wet spring.
Miss Reed and AG made a second visit to Fernbank arriving June 17th, in time to celebrate the Editor’s birthday. Mrs. Reichmann was present at dinner. Miss Green had gone to Boston.
Miss Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Evanston, Illinois drove from South Hadley, July 15th, and spent two days, much of which were devoted to swimming or sitting on the beach.
AG spent several days at Fernbank the last week of June, or, rather, a few days before starting Harvard summer school the last week of June.
VAGABOND HOUSE. Miss Green has been in residence intermittently, but Mrs. Reichmann has stayed right along and has had a great deal of company. Miss Green was at a Congregational Church Conference in Boston, and then at an International Church conference in Hartford. In between times she appeared for a few days with several guests. She is now settled in for the summer, with only a trip to Maine for 4-5 days, to draw her away. Miss Edith Frousse, whom Miss Green and the Editor had visited in Ahmednagar, India, in Dec., 1956, spent a week-end at Fernbank, July 5-6. She has just spent several days at Vagabond House.
News from our staff of reporters and correspondents
May 31, 1958. Roger stokey got swolen glands and a sore throat. His sister Elizabeth had to baby-sit while her mother went to Prize Day at St. Hubert’s School in Sudbury. Ming received a yellow toy truck. E.S.
Elizabeth Stokey got poison sumack and puffed bright pink eyes. She had to stay home from school for a week. E.S.
June 5, 1958. Aunt Eva Evans arrived at approximately 3:30. She was not planning on a passenger to Woods Hole, but picked up Elizabeth Stokey because the whole family was planning to go except Ming and Lucy because they are in Falmouth, but Roger had impetigo and tonsillitis. E.S.
July 7, 1958. Elizabeth, Roger (II), Edith and Roger (I) Stokey went fishing this afternoon. Elizabeth caught 3 baby cunners and a puffer, Roger (II) caught nothing. Edith caught a puffer, and Roger (I) caught a cunner. E.S.
Pittsburgh Pa. Barbara has started a new instrument. It is the clarenet. She started in October. Now she is taking private lessons. She enjoyes it a lot. B.S.
Barbara, Nancy and Jean’s father has gone to Ann Arbor Michigan to go to school. He will be gone 8 weeks. (This for a course in Nuclear Physics.)
Tiger, our cat is getting big. He climbs trees and is hard to get down. Once he climbed up after an airplane. B.S.
June 20, 1958 the Bruchas family took a trip to the Pacific Ocean. They went by way of Tacoma and Olympia. At the Ocean they went to an Indian village (Moclips). Peter and Peggy could not swim because there is too much of an undertow. But they had fun climbing on bolders on the beach. Peggy B.
For two weeks in June Peggy Bruchas went to a camp. One of the hikes was to a beach. There they earned a badge called the salt water badge. They also did cooking on a camp fire. The last day all the Units put on skits. Now daycamp is over and island children are ready for swimming lessons. Peggy B.
Visit to Nike Base. by Peter B.
Last year the sixth grade of Vashon Grade school went to visit the Nike missile base. First they went to the radar building. The building has three radar screen inside. The Nike missiles which are kept about 2 miles from the building are controlled here. Just outside the building are three radar antennae. One is for looking onto and guiding the missile. One is for locking onto the enemy plane. The very largest one is for finding the plane in the beginning. The first Nike cost about a million dollars. Now they only cost twenty-four thousand dollars. The Nike missile can travel about 600 miles an hour. The radar station has no controll over the missile if it goes farther than 25 miles away from the base.
[Diagram of a missile.]
If our worthy contributor of the above drawing feels that the reproduction is inadequate, the Editor will sympathize with him. She has sometimes felt the same way herself. It may be that the editorship of the Scientific Department is inadequate, but the difficulty is that we have a small staff.
Vol. no. ? Count for yourself July 1958
The Editor regrets that this number is behind schedule, like PHYTOMORPHOLOGY, and hopes that the contributors will not withdraw their support and send their contributions to other journals. The Editor was requested to send her botanical contributions to the American Journal of Botaniy because Phytomorphology was behind, but she is continuing with her favorite journal even if behind. The fundamental difficulty is that there are not enough hours in the day for the Editor to pursue her work on Ferns, get a modicum of sleep (a generous modicum), enjoy the Excellent Society of Woods Hole, get an occasional swim (and this very moment she is warmer than she has been all summer, and is considering stopping this work and take a swim), and then have time for this important publication. The swim is over and it was most refreshing.
WEATHER. Warm just at this minute, but it has been incredibly cold in June and early July. It took two sweaters to keep the Editor warm enough, at the Botany Bldg. In early June there was so much rain and so little sun that all buildings needed to be heated; the Botany Bldg. has no heat but the sun. By the first of July it was warm enough to go swimming - uncommonly late to initiate the swimming season. There has been less rain in July, but a great deal of fog. The Algae class found it a poor season for collecting.
ARRIVALS. Mrs. Evans arrived at Fernbank, via the Bach Festival, May 18th.
Miss Green and Mrs. Reichmann, also Gipsy, arrived at Vagabond House two days earlier.
Miss Reed and AG brought the Editor and her possessions, so far as she remembered them, to Woods Hole, June 3rd. Miss Reed and AG stayed two days, the former gardening vigorously and planting the border; AG sickled the grass which had made an excessive growth in the cold wet spring.
Miss Reed and AG made a second visit to Fernbank arriving June 17th, in time to celebrate the Editor’s birthday. Mrs. Reichmann was present at dinner. Miss Green had gone to Boston.
Miss Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Evanston, Illinois drove from South Hadley, July 15th, and spent two days, much of which were devoted to swimming or sitting on the beach.
AG spent several days at Fernbank the last week of June, or, rather, a few days before starting Harvard summer school the last week of June.
VAGABOND HOUSE. Miss Green has been in residence intermittently, but Mrs. Reichmann has stayed right along and has had a great deal of company. Miss Green was at a Congregational Church Conference in Boston, and then at an International Church conference in Hartford. In between times she appeared for a few days with several guests. She is now settled in for the summer, with only a trip to Maine for 4-5 days, to draw her away. Miss Edith Frousse, whom Miss Green and the Editor had visited in Ahmednagar, India, in Dec., 1956, spent a week-end at Fernbank, July 5-6. She has just spent several days at Vagabond House.
News from our staff of reporters and correspondents
May 31, 1958. Roger stokey got swolen glands and a sore throat. His sister Elizabeth had to baby-sit while her mother went to Prize Day at St. Hubert’s School in Sudbury. Ming received a yellow toy truck. E.S.
Elizabeth Stokey got poison sumack and puffed bright pink eyes. She had to stay home from school for a week. E.S.
June 5, 1958. Aunt Eva Evans arrived at approximately 3:30. She was not planning on a passenger to Woods Hole, but picked up Elizabeth Stokey because the whole family was planning to go except Ming and Lucy because they are in Falmouth, but Roger had impetigo and tonsillitis. E.S.
July 7, 1958. Elizabeth, Roger (II), Edith and Roger (I) Stokey went fishing this afternoon. Elizabeth caught 3 baby cunners and a puffer, Roger (II) caught nothing. Edith caught a puffer, and Roger (I) caught a cunner. E.S.
Pittsburgh Pa. Barbara has started a new instrument. It is the clarenet. She started in October. Now she is taking private lessons. She enjoyes it a lot. B.S.
Barbara, Nancy and Jean’s father has gone to Ann Arbor Michigan to go to school. He will be gone 8 weeks. (This for a course in Nuclear Physics.)
Tiger, our cat is getting big. He climbs trees and is hard to get down. Once he climbed up after an airplane. B.S.
June 20, 1958 the Bruchas family took a trip to the Pacific Ocean. They went by way of Tacoma and Olympia. At the Ocean they went to an Indian village (Moclips). Peter and Peggy could not swim because there is too much of an undertow. But they had fun climbing on bolders on the beach. Peggy B.
For two weeks in June Peggy Bruchas went to a camp. One of the hikes was to a beach. There they earned a badge called the salt water badge. They also did cooking on a camp fire. The last day all the Units put on skits. Now daycamp is over and island children are ready for swimming lessons. Peggy B.
Visit to Nike Base. by Peter B.
Last year the sixth grade of Vashon Grade school went to visit the Nike missile base. First they went to the radar building. The building has three radar screen inside. The Nike missiles which are kept about 2 miles from the building are controlled here. Just outside the building are three radar antennae. One is for looking onto and guiding the missile. One is for locking onto the enemy plane. The very largest one is for finding the plane in the beginning. The first Nike cost about a million dollars. Now they only cost twenty-four thousand dollars. The Nike missile can travel about 600 miles an hour. The radar station has no controll over the missile if it goes farther than 25 miles away from the base.
[Diagram of a missile.]
If our worthy contributor of the above drawing feels that the reproduction is inadequate, the Editor will sympathize with him. She has sometimes felt the same way herself. It may be that the editorship of the Scientific Department is inadequate, but the difficulty is that we have a small staff.
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Phytomorphology: An International Journal of Plant Morphology
She was not planning on a passenger to Woods Hole, but picked up Elizabeth Stokey because the whole family was planning to go except Ming and Lucy because they are in Falmouth, but Roger had impetigo and tonsillitis.
I wish I could ask my mother (Edith/Edie) about E.S.'s reports. Ming and I (ages 7 and 3) were with my maternal grandparents in Falmouth, and Betsy (age almost 9) got sent to Woods Hole. An excellent job of offloading the healthy offspring so that my mother could concentrate on poor sick Roger (age 5).
the difficulty is that we have a small staff.
Yes, I remember Aunt Alma as being quite small.
She was not planning on a passenger to Woods Hole, but picked up Elizabeth Stokey because the whole family was planning to go except Ming and Lucy because they are in Falmouth, but Roger had impetigo and tonsillitis.
I wish I could ask my mother (Edith/Edie) about E.S.'s reports. Ming and I (ages 7 and 3) were with my maternal grandparents in Falmouth, and Betsy (age almost 9) got sent to Woods Hole. An excellent job of offloading the healthy offspring so that my mother could concentrate on poor sick Roger (age 5).
the difficulty is that we have a small staff.
Yes, I remember Aunt Alma as being quite small.
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