[FRIAM] Few of you ...

[Steven A Smith]

Barry -

Fascinating anecdote!... pretty studly, canoeing (open canoe?) in that 
country anytime of year.   I don't think "normal" kids do that kind of 
stuff anymore!

- Steve

On 1/15/19 2:07 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
> Funny, I was going to mention this (the hybrid car, not the interview) 
> as well.
>
> Jonathan Wouk is Victor’s son, and was in my class at Harvard (1965). 
> We were both active in the Harvard Outing Club (hiking, spelunking in 
> NY, Virginia and W. Virginia, climbing in the Presidential Range in NH 
> on semester breaks), and Jon was one of the two classmates with me 
> when we canoed from Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatechewan to Eskimo 
> Point, in what is now Nunavut (was the Northwest Territory of Keewatin).
>
> In one of those accidental meetings that you would think had zero 
> probability, in 2005 I ran into Jon and his mother and two men who 
> were very much older having breakfast in Manhattan. I kind of get the 
> impression that at least one of them was Victor or Herman. They are 
> the ones who finally told me, 40 years after the fact, that my parents 
> and the Wouks had hired a bush pilot to fly over our route to check on 
> us. Apparently he found us, but we never saw him. My parents never let 
> on that they had been part of it.
>
> --Barry
>
>
> On 15 Jan 2019, at 3:33, Edward Angel wrote:
>
>> Herman Wouk’s brother Victor is credited with being the inventor of 
>> the hybrid car. He interviewed me for Caltech when I was a senior in 
>> high school.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> ____________
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