Comments on: Letter 22 http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/31/letter-22/ R. H. Swinney to Ruth Erlanger, 1934 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:46:51 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: C http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/31/letter-22/comment-page-1/#comment-6 C Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:22:27 +0000 http://www.43loveletters.com/1934/08/31/letter-22/#comment-6 <a href="http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/win2/ShafferPA_05.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Phillip A Shaffer, PhD</a> appears in 16 oral histories and sounds to have been a complete knob, though Greer rather liked him. Ethel (Ronzoni) Bishop is nicely described in <a href="http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/transcripts/agress.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Harry Agress' oral history</a>... she's the one who put ipecac in the alcohol, according to <a href="http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/transcripts/schmitt.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Schmitt</a>. Frank Urban was a chemist... sounds like he wasn't at wustl for long. No known middle initial -- he published (with shaffer) as "Frank Urban" Miss C.W. Wieghard, perhaps? There's just one 1935 pub under that name, and no appearance in oral history ... I find a Charlotte Wieghard Fahey (1909-1995) who was later a professor of chemistry at Skidmore from 1937-1975. A likely candidate. Phillip A Shaffer, PhD appears in 16 oral histories and sounds to have been a complete knob, though Greer rather liked him.

Ethel (Ronzoni) Bishop is nicely described in Harry Agress’ oral history… she’s the one who put ipecac in the alcohol, according to Schmitt.

Frank Urban was a chemist… sounds like he wasn’t at wustl for long. No known middle initial — he published (with shaffer) as “Frank Urban”

Miss C.W. Wieghard, perhaps? There’s just one 1935 pub under that name, and no appearance in oral history … I find a Charlotte Wieghard Fahey (1909-1995) who was later a professor of chemistry at Skidmore from 1937-1975. A likely candidate.

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