Arnold's Story: October 10, 1947

I still have that Big T blanket. It is navy blue with yellow trim and is falling apart with holes. In Gainesville we never used it. I think because it is wool and too hot for Florida weather, or perhaps it was a bit scratchy. I had not realized it was an award though.

Mary Neves Madruga — the spelling Nevis had not been fixed when she was born in 1875 and the Portuguese spelling Neves was used then — is Arnold's oldest aunt on the Nevis side. I think that Belmede is her son, thus Bill Nevis's nephew and Arnold's first cousin.

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Arnold's Story: October 9, 1947

This letter, from Leonard's then wife Pat Nevis to Arnold, shows him now in medical school at Harvard University. I do not have much info about Arnold's sister-in-law Pat. I met her a number of times and enjoyed her company quite a bit (after the she remained good friends with her former parents-in-laws Bill and Hazel Nevis and her former sister-in-law Laura Nevis), but I do not have her maiden name and at the moment I do not recall her married name from her second marriage. And I can not seem to find the date of Len and Pat's wedding.

The Ideal System Company was Bill Nevis's accounting company. He added his son Leonard as a partner after World War II, and sent Leonard and Pat off to New York City to open an East Coast office for the firm. The handsome building at 136 Liberty Street was torn down recently; it stood across from the 911 Memorial in what is now Liberty Park. 

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Arnold's Story: October 1947 Veterans Administration

Arnold got a premium notice for life insurance through the Veterans Administration:

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Arnold's Story: August 27, 1947

Arnold got a reminder to pay his dues to the Institute of Radio Engineers to maintain his membership. His membership shows here as starting in December 1946.

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Arnold's Story: August 7, 1947

Phil Lamson writes to Arnold in August 1947. In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? is a best-selling religious fiction novel written by Charles Monroe Sheldon, 1896; the book ranks as one of the best-selling books of all time and has sold more than 50,000,000 copies.

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Arnold's Story: July – August, 1947

In July and August, 1947, Arnold is back working at the McCloud River Lumber Company. Here are his deduction receipts for board and bunk, unemployment insurance, and federal income tax. The "U.S. Old Age Tax" is what we now call Social Security.

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Arnold's Story: June 13, 1947

Arnold's Caltech graduation announcement and commencement program from June 1947. He graduated with a bachelors in Physics. The class should have graduated during World War II (1944–1945) but the ceremony was delayed on account of the large number of graduates serving in the military during the war.

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Arnold's Story: February 3, 1947

Arnold never wavered in his plan to become a Presbyterian medical missionary, and here we see a receipt from Harvard Medical School. Perhaps it is an application fee since he does not graduate from Caltech until June 1947. 

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Arnold's Story: January 1, 1947

Bill and Hazel Nevis always bought their family grandstand seats for the Parade of Roses. Here are photos from the 1947 parade, the first parade to be televised. 

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