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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