High School Graduation Day 2017

On Saturday, May 27, Gus's granddaughter, Abbie Grace Bowman, 18,
graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, in Hartsville, S.C.

About a week before, I was in Hartsville to hear Abbie's presentation of her senior research project: "Using C. elegans to model the effects of Cystic Fibrosis."

I heard every word she said. I wish I could say that I understood at least some of it!

Abbie will enter Johns Hopkins University this fall.

I'm very proud of her.

Gus Meets the Hangin' Judge

One of my favorite stories from high school days when I had a part-time job working for Joe Fischer Sinclair at his station on Lindbergh Road. Joe sent me to Waynesville, Mo., about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, to pick up a car and tow it back.

I'm still laughing, sixty years later!!!

The Good Ol' Days

Years (many years!) ago, when I was a kid on Warder Avenue in University City, we (the whole Philpott family) were all seated around the dining room table one evening, We heard the back gate open and close, then the back door opened and closed.

Our neighbor from two doors up the street, Harry Gershenson, then about 7-8, came through the kitchen, walked through the dining room and the living room, and headed for the front door.

Dad said, 'Where are you going, Harry?"

"Oh, just taking a short cut," he said.

That was over 65 years ago, and I'm still chuckling.

I'll be in St. Louis in September, and I'm planning to call Harry. He may still own the house up the street, which he was using as his law office the last time we talked.