SOCIAL NOTES
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Happenings About Town
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Of This and That
By BET1IA DIGREE
If you enjoy good food, enter
tainment and dancing, don’t miss
the Griffin Memorial Hospital
Benefit Smorgasbord at the Civil
Service Club Saturday evening,
June 11. All this is being offered
for only $3.00 per person by the
Civil Service Employees, sponsors
of the affair. In case you haven’t
already bought tickets, they can be
obtained at the Civil Service Club,
but be sure to go early as there
will be a limited number available.
Cards will be given at the gate to
those coming from town so there
will be no delay . . .
Emil and Marge Knudsen, and
son Skipper, are in Seattle for a
few week’s vacation. The main
reason, tho, is the wedding of
daughter JoAnn, which will take
place June 12 . . .
lone Norton, bookkeeper at
Kraft’s office, left Tuesday to
spend her vacation in San Fran
cisco . . . lone plans to be gone
at least a month . '. .
Catherine Lowe is very happy
these days . . . Her daughter, Gail
Norris, and Gail’s sons, Bruce, age
6, and Mark, age 4, arrived last
Friday to spend a short time here.
Gail, and her huband, Herb, oper
ate a restaurant in Portland. The
visitors will remain here until
June 17 . . .
A letter from Ed and Marie
Cardinal, who have been touring
Europe the past few weeks, reach
ed us this week . . . “What a won
derful trip and lots of fun the
Cardinals are having. Our conduct
ed tour ends this morning in this
heavenly and expensive city of
Paris. We ended up by seeing the
Folies Bergere, then the Lido
Club . . . What magnificent shows!
We have seen some of the wonders
of the Roman ruins . , . Roman
walls, Coliseum, Catacombs and,
of course, Vatican City ... St.
Peter’s Basilica . . . old paintings
and castles, sidewalk cafes, taken
gondola rides and listened to sing
ing and music at night . ". . Gone
to glass factories . . . Had some
beer at the Student Prince’s tav
ern. The best highways of all were
in Germany. Holland is about the
cleanest country of all and the
flowers beautiful.
“We list the highlights in this
order: Prince Margaret’s wedding,
where we had a grandstand seat
only 25 feet away. It was beautiful;
Passion Play which was magnifi
cent; London gardens and castles;
Vatican, Catacombs and churches;
Venice, everything; Paris, Oh, la
la, just can’t name them all! There
is so much more but it would mean
a lot of writing and now we are
leaving for Madrid, Spain. Will
write more from Lisbon.” Sounds
as tho Ed and Marie are really
enjoying their trip to the fullest
extent . . .
Hospital Fund
Now $10,440.59
The total amount received up to
noon Monday for the Griffin Me
morial Fund was $10,440.59, with
pledges of more to come.
Donors the past week included
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Anderson, Mrs.
Annie Laurie Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Ware, Mr. and Mrs. William
Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kraft
and the Isle of Hope Group, Alco
holics Anonymous.
A goal of $18,000 has been set
by the Hospital Advisory Board,
and any contributions will help
reach that goal. Donations may be
sent to the Griffin Memorial Hos
pital, or given to any board mem
ber.
The hospital staff and the board
members are all grateful to all
those who have so generously re
sponded to the call for assistance
in keeping the hospital in opera
tion. The fund drive will close on
June 15, but contributions after
that date will be most welcome.
Cmdr. Robinson
Transferred East
Cmdr. and Mrs. S. P. Robinson,
accompanied by their children,
Ellen, David, James and Peter,
left last Friday for their new duty
station at U. S. Naval Sub Base
at New London, Conn.
Cmdr. Robinson, Protestant
chaplain at the 'Naval Station the
past two years, said the family had
enjoyed their tour at Kodiak and
really regretted leaving.
Cmdr. Robert A. Vaughn arrived
April 24 to relieve Cmdr. Robin
son. He was accompanied by his
wife, Helena, and sons Robbie and
Jeffrey.
World Traveler Bob LaFollette
Decides To Make Kodiak His Home
By Miriam J. Angell
Kodiak’s new attorney, Robert M.
LaFollette, arrived here barely a
week ago, set up offices on the
second floor of the bank building
and began his practice of general
law within a matter of hours. The
dispatch with which he got down
to business seems to run through
all phases of his active life.
We found Mr. LaFollette at his
desk and proceeded to query him
first on the obvious family con
niption with the late and distin
guished Senator Robert M. La
Follette of Wisconsin. The senator
ROBERT M. LaFOLLETTE
was best known for his introduc
tion of reform legislation and as
one of the founders of the Pro
gressive Party, a group of Con
gressman who split from the Re
publican Party in 1924. “Fighting
Bob” LaFollette was a vigorous
politician admired for his integrity
and fighting spirit.
He had two sons, Robert M., Jr.
and Phillip Fox LaFollette, both
of whom became lawyers; Robert
succeeded his father in the United
States Senate and Phillip was gov
ernor of Wisconsin for three terms
before he retired to his law prac
tice in the LaFollette home town
at Madison. Robert LaFollette of
Kodiak is Phillip’s son.
Had he ever been interested in
a political career? “No, I grew up
in politics. My parents were in the
thick of it and I was constantly
being dragged out to be photo
graphed when I was a boy. And
too, ever since I can remember,
people have wanted to use the
family name for their own pur
poses. I’ve always had a strong
interest in the out-of-doors and it
seemed to me I’d had enough of
politics. I never knew my grand
father—he died in 1925, a year
before I was born—but my father
and my uncle had time for outside
interests; they read a little, his
tory, political science, but politics
is too consuming for a normal life.
Frankly, I just don’t want to live
that way.
“I came to Alaska because I
wanted a place where it was still
wild. I’m keen on the outdoor life,
skiing, mountain climbing, skin
diving, camping out and all that.”
We asked for a little background
before we should get to the details
of his recent life. “I was born and
brought up in Madison, Wisconsin,
went to law school at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin and for about six
months in 1953-54 practiced law in
Madison. Before that, back in 1944
46 I spent two years with the Army
in the Philippines and Japan. Then
in March of 1954 I came to Alaska
and took my bar exams in Anchor
age."
Around that time he went up to
Auktuvuk Pass in the Brooks
Range for six weeks with the
Numamiu/t Eskimo. He lived and
hunted with them, shared the
tribe’s homes and food. He spent
some time in Fairbanks where he
was City Magistrate for three
months.
"In 1955 I returned to Anchorage
and practiced law in partnership
with Roger Cremo for two years
until August 1957 at which time
I took a twenty-six months trip to
Africa and Europe. I spent a year
in Europe, skiing, mountaineering
and swimming as well as seeing
many museums and cultural
things. Winter in Europe was fas
cinating. I spent a lot of time with
another American. We put skins
on our skis for climbing (there
were no tows up there) and skied
from hut to hut in the Austrian
Alps. The huts are sort of inns
where we slept and bought soup
and wine to supplement the sau
sages and chocolate we packed
with us. We were living on about
forty dollars a month and econ
omizing.
“I then went to Africa—Egypt,
the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tan
ganyika and a bit of the Congo.
I was kicked out of Sudan for
fraternizing with the natives; I
had this marvelous chance to hunt
with a tribe that still speared
elepants but the government seem
ed to think I was a spy and so I
missed that. Then I went up on
Mount Elgon between Kenya and
Uganda and spent a month with
the Elgoni Tribe, spear hunted
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