13

Xc to Della 1/12

to Leo Stanley 1/26/68

Geo. Ditz 1/16/68

2317 W. 20th St.,

Los Angeles, 1/8/68.

90018

Mr. David S. Jacobson,

Sec'y to the University

Stanford, Cal.

Dear Mr. Jacobson:

"Peccavi-" My sin has found me out. I said "the
Bawlout was always right".

Now cometh a copy of a recent letter written to you by Phillip S.
Brooke, LLB '16, which proves that the Bawlout was wrong as to the
residence of his brother, Bob '09', at the time of the Wentz incident.
In a letter to his mother, Bob describes his sensations during the
'06 earthquake|in the house, so he couldn't have been in
Encina when Wentz was hanging from the roof.

Perhaps Rick Templeton is right in saying that it is all just
a good story and nothing more. All we need now is for some good
Stanford man to prove that there never was any earthquake in the
first place; as San Franciscans say, "it was just the fire". Then
how about those "brickpiles of the City", Laup? (Leumeister '07).

If there was no quake|then the Phi Kappa Psi house, which was
built in College Terrace in 1892 and later dragged across the wheat
fields and relocated near the Palo Alto deepo', may have been shaken
to pieces solely by the reverberations of the Southern Pacific trains.

Even some of the "old guard" professors made the mistake of
building homes in College Terrace. Professor L.M. Hoskins, ("Bill Nye"
to generations of Stanford engineers) once showed me the house that
he built there. And by the way, I still have the well-known Hoskins
walking-stick with its inscription- "from the Class of '98."

"The First Year at Stanford (English Club 1905) relates that at
the opening of the University there was no Palo Alto and who could
foretell that it would become the "college town" or even become the
home of Patrick's restaurant and Joe Larkin's lunch counter, very
important ports-of-call because when the typhoid epidemic ocur{caret:"r"}ed
in
1903 the Stanford Inn closed its doors and remained closed until 1007.
That's when the eating clubs were born.

Leo Stanley and I were partners in crime in the'06-07 "Stanford
University Concert Band". I missed Leo at our 50th Reunion in 1957
(and still miss him), but I know about his books and also those of
his collaborat-ress collobatt-ress, Evelyn Wells Podesta. I hear frequently from N.P.
(Nick Bryan)- "old pal"of '07. Now calls himself Class of 1908-(ugh).

Well, do not think that I have forgotten having paid 15¢ for
that misleading Bawlout! I suppose "limitation" has barred me from
recovery but it is worth the money to go ringing down the grooves
of fame as the leading liar in the Wentz argument.

Yours for Stanford,

Wendell W. Ward '07

P.S.

Mayfield is no more but it had
at least one distinction- those
Table Tops. Tell me, Old Timers
"was your name written there?"

Carbon Copy to Philip S. Brooke

Hamblen, Gilbert & Brooke

Paulsen Blda - Spokane 99201