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LETTER TO ROBERT CROSKERY IN RESPONSE TO HIS NOTE

RECALLING VIRGINIA’S VISIT TO THE COSMOS CLUB

From: Glenn Geelhoed

To: rwcroskery@fuse.net

Date: 1/29/04 12:35PM

Subject: Fwd: You have photos from PhotoWorks

Dear Robert:

I had sent a note with several attachments to Bev in response to her own "healing interval" as you are nursing her back in plaster. Since she was unable to open the access to a recent roll of film I had alluded to in the Photo Works access attached, I thought I might also send this to you, so that you could access not only the most recent roll, but a few of its predecessors fro your interest when time off from nursing duties would allow.

But, more specifically, this allows me to respond to the letter I have just received reflecting on your great reception honoring Tibi's 90th birthday! What a warm and wonderful event! Tibi represents the most important contribution to Blood Banking since Landsteiner's description of the ABO blood groups for transfusion compatibility at the turn of the last century, and he got the Nobel Prize for that! I am honored to be a part of this celebration in getting the books to you in time.

I apologize for not opening the parcel of books to check to find a receipt in there which in no way was intended to be forwarded to you! But, this does offer me the opportunity to tell you of the organization from which I had forwarded it! Since they no longer are distributing books, and they had received a small supply from the then‑extant publisher, the former treasurer Dr. Kenneth Fisher came over to drop off the parcel that I had forwarded to you unopened. I had no intent that there should be a wholesale bill in that packet, and if it is all right with you, I will put your check toward the expenses of the medicines the medical students and I are assembling in our "packing party" tomorrow for our departure for the Horn of Africa the following day. This should be a direct and immediate contribution toward the relief of inflicted suffering!

I am a founding member of a group International Society for Panetics, and a past President of it. (See www.panetics.org) The founder was a good friend and the epitome of East/West synthesis in reasoning and in the means for resolution of pain‑inflicting pursuits by "men of practical affairs." It concerns the study of inflicted suffering, its measurement, and methods of relief to be used as a monitor of the humanitarian effectiveness of intervention policies. Both you and Tibi would love it, and I will arrange to send to you the "Trilogy" of just some of the works by Ralph Hsu. Check out the web site and sign on in!

The annual meeting of the ISP was held in April in the Cosmos Club, and both Virginia and I were in attendance‑‑despite the delay we encountered on return from Malawi by her passport having been stolen en route to London. You may see Virginia's picture in two significant places: one is the foyer in front of the portraits of the Cosmos Club members who have won the Nobel Prize, opposite the larger wall of portraits of those who have won the Pulitzer Prize.

The second of Virginia's pictures is even more significant. I had been very eager that she join me in this Cosmos Club reception, because of an original oil portrait on the second floor‑‑the upper limit of the incursion by women into the club, to date. William Lanuoette, our current Chairman of the ISP, among the Executive Committee with whom I meet tomorrow at the Cosmos Club, did the honors in escorting Virginia to view the painting. It depicts the founding of the National Geographic Society at the occasion in the Cosmos Club under the Chair of the meeting portrayed‑‑Alexander Graham Bell. I took special delight in introducing to her this direct link with her ancestral past!

I also told her that across Florida Avenue from the Cosmos Club, in the place where she met her step‑son before his departure for Ghana, is the original headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati. This organization was founded at that location by one of the patriot‑members of the Society of the Cincinnati in America by its chairman, George Washington. As a son of Cincinnati, I cannot wait to escort you over from the Cosmos Club to this other Society's headquarters!

I may be accumulating a larger list of sites to see when you return to the capital area than we will have time for in one sweep, since I had detailed for Beverley the new Air and Space Museum's Udvar Hazy Center to explain the pictures on the attached film roll in which I am touring my twin grandsons around the Enola Gay, the SR‑71 Blackbird and hundreds of the original signature pieces in this distinctive "only‑in‑America" museum, even though it also contains the first of the MIG‑series of Soviet era jet fighters.

But, the new Derwood guest quarters is rapidly being completed, and you already know it is a good half‑way stop on the North Carolina trail!

Thanks again for your letter, and best wishes to Tibi, and especially for the healing progress of the "Croskery women‑on‑the‑mend."

Cheers!

GWG

>>> Glenn Geelhoed 01/26/04 01:22PM >>>

Here are my only pictures from Cumberland, from the "disposable" camera that stayed with me while the "permanent" ones broke down.

You may also note‑‑not coincidentally, a few pictures of the twin grandsons, a successful Maryland Goose Hunt, the Cumberland excursion in which the biggest catch may be that of Tom using my gloves to pull an armadillo out of its "hole in one!" There follow the pictures of my Birthday Run on "my holiday" (shared with Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King this year) with Joe and the Derwood tour of the Aukward family‑‑the last to visit before the demolition and the first guests to return before the renovations are completed.

And, now, I am off to the "Horn of Africa."

Enjoy!

GWG

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