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Virginia provided nutritious and delicious meals for us. Whether it was after church on
Sundays, a birthday or Thanksgiving dinner, each person’s favorite dish was on the
table. All of the grandchildren loved her macaroni and cheese. Broccoli casserole, lima
beans, brown rice and white acre peas always accompanied the mouth-watering roast
beef and gravy. As the years went by, our daughter, Wendy, was invaluable in lending
a helping hand. Her large bowl of Chocolate delight satisfied those of us who were
chocoholics and Virginia’s pecan pies, topped with Reddi-whip, topped off after dinner
conversations better than any holiday football game

I had no serious medical problems. In 1967, our station manager, Jim Lynagh,
suggested I see an allergist to determine the cause of my post-nasal drip. I visited Dr.
Melvin Newman who tested me for tree and plant pollens. A serum was prepared for
me to get 3 years of injections that would cause my body to build up my immunity to
various early spring heavy tree pollens. At times over the years, I still had to use
Dristan, then Contac and finally Coricidin for relief from occasional allergic reactions
to the many days with high pollen counts.

CHAPTER 42 - Battle with Health
I was very health-conscious when approaching my 65th birthday in 1996. While
Virginia and I were attending the AMS Weather Conference in Boston, I noticed that I
felt off balance while waiting for an elevator. My doctor checked me and made a note
of it, but found nothing wrong. The next year we went to Snowbird, UT for a
conference in the mountains. I had no trouble jogging a mile or two in the high altitude,
but Virginia became breathless climbing the steps to our hotel.

I finally got to meet Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, when she
visited Channel 4. She always called WJXT her “lucky rabbit’s foot” because of its
outstanding success in investigative reporting and community involvement. Her father
was Eugene Meyer, a New York City financier who had purchased the Washington
Post at a bankruptcy sale. Her mother was of German descent, a bohemian intellectual.
Katherine sadly died in 2001 after suffering from a fall on a sidewalk while visiting Sun
Valley, Utah.

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