By Staff
Here is a little follow-up on some of my previous articles.
I guess I don't realize how many readers I have of my weekly column.
I do get lots of e-mails, phone calls, stops on the street and even a few visits.
In my one of Oct. 3, the story created by the mention of the suspenders I gave to my neighbor Vern Murphy years ago.
I received a nice thank-you card from Phyllis Langley Zacha, one of Phil Langley's daughters; also a nice e-mail from his other girl, Susie Langley Holcumb.
They both thanked me for writing my book and the mention of their father Phil.
Recently, my neighbor Joy Murphy found the old 1931 card that she and her three little sisters sent to Phil with their pictures attached to thank the boys for the doll house given to them.
The card looks like new for being 77 years old.
Joy let me take the card that Phil brought back to her before he died.
I took it to our library and Kay helped me make two complete copies of the card, the cover and the insides with the four little girls' pictures.
I'm sure Phil's daughters will be surprised when they get their copy in the mail.
In my column Oct. 14 about Heddon's factory and their "E" award celebration in 1944, I received a letter and four copies of Karen Glynn's mother's pictures of the ceremony.
Her mother was Mary Jane Tatman.
Karen pointed out where her mother was in one of the photos.
She said she checked, but could not find the pin to show me.
But I was surprised when my friend Alex Siczek called to say he had an "E" pin to show me, and was even more surprised when generous Alex gave the pin to me.
Alex was one of Lyell Wooster's Duck Club members I wrote about in earlier columns.
Also, I got an e-mail from Barb Deuel to tell me I couldn't have worked at Heddon's, as I would have only been 10 years old in 1940-1951. It was an error in the paper. Should have been 1947-1951. I'll just blame it on Mr. Eby. Ha! ha!
In my article of Oct. 7 when I mentioned I had the 1907 DHS yearbook that told all the grads from DHS from 1864 up to 1907, I received an e-mail from Judge Herb Phillipson. He said his dad was an 1898 grad.
Herb said he thought his father's class only had 13 or 14 in it and only three or four boys.
I found out that in 1898 his dad's class had a total of 22.
Sixteen were girls and six were boys.
Also, Herb's uncle, Gen. Irving Phillipson, graduated in 1899, the year after his brother, old Herb.
After the article was in the paper I had a phone call from an elderly lady to tell me I was sure mistaken about Judge Herb graduating in 1898 as she just saw him on the street and he couldn't be 128 years old.
I had to explain to her that Herb the judge was old Herb's son.
I also got an e-mail from a Jim Agnew from Rocklin, Calif., letting me know Kaiser Frazer did not exist until 1946.
He said maybe I was referring to Henry J. Kaiser Co.
I had a friend who had the first Henry J. car in Dowagiac and another friend who had a neat-looking Kaiser, green and white, lots of chrome and futuristic design.
Bob Mosher had the Henry J. and Herman Emmons had the Kaiser.
They both worked at the factory.
E-mail him at cardinalcharlie@hotmail.com.