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FERNBANK NEWS
July 4, 1965
Editors and contributing staff:
Kathy Lundeen
Nancy Lundeen
Barbara Stokey
Roger Stokey

(column 1)
During the Saturday picnic of July 3, 1965 Roger Stokey discussed the idea of re-issuing the Fernbank News.  The editors discussed what to put in the paper.  They talked about several things, including that Roger Stokey would be sports editor.
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Roger Stokey squirted Charles Trageser, his friend from Wayland, during the Saturday picnic.  At this Charles tried to squirt back at Roger - - - without success.   R.P.S.
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Roger Stokey in a survey discovered that Vagabond House has five outside lights.  All but one were lit during the picnic.   R.P.S.
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Gladys Green is in Chicago for ten days until July 8.  She is attending church meetings.   R.P.S.
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Suzette Green stole Roger Stokey's and Kathy Lundeen's sneakers.  Nancy Lundeen rescued them.  For the record the sneakers were full of holes.   R.P.S.
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Sports - - -
Nancy Lundeen, Kathy Lundeen, Roger Stokey, and Charles Trageser ran around the Mill Pond on Saturday.

Roger Stokey and Charles Trageser went fishing Saturday morning.  They caught five small fish which they threw back.  They had biked from Falmouth to Woods Hole to do the fishing.
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(column 2)
I think that everyone at the picnic thinks that Aunt Erna is tops.  She fixed a delicious dinner of swordfish sandwiches and strawberry ice cream pie for dessert for nineteen people.  The grownups talked and the kids ran around and played all over the place.  All that work and all Aunt Erna could say was "Eat more, eat more!!!"  N.N.L.
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​The Robinsons, Aunt Edie's parents, invited Ellen, Kathy, Nancy, and Barbara to their house.  Roger and Charles were staying there.  We swam at a fairly crowded, pretty rough, but otherwise nice ocean.   N.N.L.
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At the picnic at the Robinsons we ate a good supper of hotdogs outside.  Then some homemade sugared doughnuts!!!  I think that anyone would have that meal over again.   N.N.L.
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Wednesday July 14 Ray and A.G. Morrison came to Fernbank with Fred, Dan, and Peter.  Ray, Kathy, Nancy, and Fred went fishing in the Morrison's new boat.  Ray caught four fish, Nancy caught 3, and Kathy caught 1.  Fred didn't catch any but he tried awfully hard.   K.F.L.
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Fernbank House has been going regularly to see the Oberlin Players in Gilbert and Sullivan productions.  They have seen "Patience," "Princess Ida," and "The Merry Widow".  They claim not to have fallen asleep during them yet though the lead in "Patience" hit a wrong note when she heard Nancy snoring.   K.F.L.
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The Stodeens are planning a concert which will be given sometime in August.  Any contributions to help support the stomachs of these players will be welcome.  
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1.
Alma was not at Fernbank; sometime between the summer of 1964 and the summer of 1965 she had a serious stroke.
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​2.
FERNBANK NEWS
July 4, 1965
July 4 seems to have been an aspirational date, judging from some of the news below.

3.
​Editors and contributing staff:
Kathy Lundeen
Nancy Lundeen
Barbara Stokey
Roger Stokey
The Lundeens - Kay, her husband, and her three daughters - had come east from Oregon for summer.  It was Kay's 25th reunion at Radcliffe in June, and then they stayed for the summer, except for Kay's husband, who went back to Oregon for his work.
Barbara - Bill's oldest daughter - was in her second (I think it was second, anyway) year as housekeeper/whatever at Fernbank.
Roger - Roger 1's son - was, as noted elsewhere in this News, staying with our maternal grandparents at their house in Falmouth.  His three sisters were elsewhere for most of the summer.

4.
​Roger Stokey squirted Charles Trageser, his friend from Wayland, during the Saturday picnic.  At this Charles tried to squirt back at Roger - - - without success.   R.P.S.
Trageser is spelled incorrectly in the actual News.  I just couldn't bring myself to spell it incorrectly in the transcript.  It's mostly pronounced TREG-a-ser, with the Treg part rhyming with keg, though I remember Mrs. Trageser pronounced it TRAG-a-ser, with the Trag part rhyming with Drag.  The Tragesers lived across the street from us in Wayland.

I figure the reason Charles isn't on the picnic tablecloth is that Glady wasn't there for the picnic, being in Chicago, as is noted further down.

Charles and his younger sister Molly visited us when my parents rented a house in Woods Hole the following summer - see:
5.
​Gladys Green is in Chicago for ten days until July 8.  She is attending church meetings.
So Erna did the Saturday night picnic by herself, and very capably, as is noted further down.
Glady went to Chicago the following year as well - see the 1966 Fernbank News.

​6.
Suzette Green stole Roger Stokey's and Kathy Lundeen's sneakers.  Nancy Lundeen rescued them.  For the record the sneakers were full of holes.
Suzette was a small silver poodle, successor to Gypsy, the black cocker spaniel.

​7.
​I think that everyone at the picnic thinks that Aunt Erna is tops.  She fixed a delicious dinner of swordfish sandwiches and strawberry ice cream pie for dessert for nineteen people.  The grownups talked and the kids ran around and played all over the place.  All that work and all Aunt Erna could say was "Eat more, eat more!!!"  N.N.L.
I thank my cousin Nancy for this description of a typical Saturday night picnic at Glady's - even though Glady wasn't there.  I've added it to the   We all remember Aunt Erna exhorting us to eat more.

I've added this Nancy's paragraph to the Non-Family page for Glady and Aunt Erna:
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​​The Robinsons, Aunt Edie's parents, invited Ellen, Kathy, Nancy, and Barbara to their house.  Roger and Charles were staying there.  We swam at a fairly crowded, pretty rough, but otherwise nice ocean.   N.N.L.
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At the picnic at the Robinsons we ate a good supper of hotdogs outside.  Then some homemade sugared doughnuts!!!  I think that anyone would have that meal over again.   N.N.L.
About the doughnuts...this was something my grandmother was famous for in the family.  The doughnuts were made in a Shal-O-Fryer, pronounced Shallow-Fryer, an invention of my grandfather's cousin Kenneth.  The Shal-O-Fryer was a round metal pan (no handle) with a flat bottom that sat on a stove burner.  The diameter of the pan was extended an extra inch or so by a ledge - making the interior shape sort of like a hot tub.  There was a removable interior ring, whose diameter was pretty much the same diameter as the bottom of the Shal-O-Fryer (i.e. not including the ledge) and whose depth was pretty much the same depth as the Shal-O-Fryer.  When the oil in the main area became too hot, it would spill over the interior ring into the ledge area, where it would cool off because the ledge was not in direct contact with the burner, and then return to the main area via openings in the lower part of the ring.  I hope that makes sense.

The family story is that Cousin Kenneth patented the Shal-O-Fryer and sold the patent to Lever Brothers, who then did absolutely nothing with the patent, to the great disgust of the family.  I have this vague idea that there was one other Shal-O-Fryer in existence besides my grandmother's, but I'm not sure of that.  My brother Roger now has my grandmother's Shal-O-Fryer, but as far as I know he hasn't used it in decades.

The doughnuts were sugared by putting them in a paper bag with sugar in it, and shaking the bag.

I emailed Roger with the above, requesting his input.  He responded:

I think you’re roughly correct. I will try to take a picture and send it to you. I haven’t used it because the thermometer failed and I haven’t found one remotely similar. I should probably make a better effort, although I randomly looked a few weeks ago. The oil needs to be at 375 degrees. Too cool, greasy; too hot, a fire. But that’s well above cooking temperature. 

When I made them I used the recipe in joy of cooking. The doughnuts came out exactly like grandma made.

The thermometer that Roger mentions looked like a meat thermometer - round, with a stick on the end to stick it into the Shal-O-Fryer.  Into the interior ring, I suppose.  My grandmother's stove was gas, which would have made it easier for her to adjust the temperature.

9.
Wednesday July 14 Ray and A.G. Morrison came to Fernbank with Fred, Dan, and Peter.  Ray, Kathy, Nancy, and Fred went fishing in the Morrison's new boat.  Ray caught four fish, Nancy caught 3, and Kathy caught 1.  Fred didn't catch any but he tried awfully hard.   K.F.L.
Fred was three and a half years old.
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