Herb Retsky

He loved telling us how dumb the Filopinos were at math. "Trying to teach them was like making water run uphill".  He had a bushy mustache and modest amount of hair.  But one day he showed up sans both.  He was going to Honolulu for a physical for his local draft board.  We were afraid we would be losing a mentor, but when he returned three days later it was all smiles.  He had failed - bad knee.

Letter March 1971