Arnold's Story: March 9, 1951

The formal letter of office arrives from Stanford University Hospital:

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Arnold's Story: February 19, 1951

Arnold is offered an internship in surgery at the Stanford University Hospital:

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Arnold's Story: 1951 Aesculapiad

The Aesculapiad is the Harvard Medical School yearbook. The 1951 Aesculapiad lists Arnold with future plans to be a medical missionary in Asia. He is also seen here as a member of Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity and the Boylston Medical Society.

Arnold is in the back row, far right

Arnold's bookplate (from his copy of the 1951 Aesculapiad)

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Arnold's Story: December 14, 1950

The 1950 Terry Rambler trailer was affectionately dubbed the "canned ham". Bill was a keen gadget purchaser; here we find him buying a new 16-inch GE television and giving his old one, a Crosby, to Leonard.

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Arnold's Story: November 23, 1950

Chevy Chase is a neighborhood in Glendale, California, named for Chevy Chase Canyon (originally Cañon de Sicomoro). Flintridge is mostly known as La Cañada, a neighbor of Glendale.

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Arnold's Story: November 16, 1950

Bill writes to his son Arnold with a $100 check enclosed. We see mention of an excursion to Portland, Maine, back in late September, when Bill visited Arnold in Boston.

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Arnold's Story: November 13, 1950

A letter from Pat Nevis to her brother-in-law Arnold. Pat Quits smoking in 1950, but Leonard does not successfully quit. When I visited him in his eighties, he was still sharing a cigarette with his second wife Lucille in the afternoons.

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Arnold's Story: November 2, 1950

A letter from a very active and enthusiastic Jan Schuck to Arnold:

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Arnold's Story: November 1, 1950

Hazel has been busy with church work, Girl Scouts and PTA. She messed up the payments of Arnold's life insurance again. Leonard, with Pat's assistance, is applying to medical schools around the country. 

Hazel's sister-in-law Belle Bettencourt and her daughter JoAnn visited a few weeks earlier. Her niece-in-law Amelia Bettencourt Hyer and Amelia's husband Burnett Hyer stayed overnight on their way back from a convention. 

Hazel's brother Elwood and his wife Rubye visited with their teenage son Walter. Her other brother Leslie and his wife Lenore came after that. 

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Arnold's Story: October 20, 1950

Normally I do not post empty envelopes, but I suspect this one contained an application and therefore will play a role later in Arnold's Story. Note that the Sanford University School of Medicine was in San Francisco at that time, moving to the present-day campus near Palo Alto in 1959. 

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