Prelude to a Wedding
Photos posted June 10, 2006
© 2006, Herbert E. Lindberg

After an academic year of living in the Stanford Village dorms (old hospital barracks) Mary found an apartment to rent with a teacher friend Ina, and I and four other engineering graduate students found a large house to rent at 1001 Cowper Street, Palo Alto.  I called it "The House of Five," and the name stuck.  It became a center for parties by and for Stanford grad students and their friends. Dave Guard was going to Stanford at the time and came to a few of these parties. When he played his uke and sang it was obvious he was a huge talent.  He joined with Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds a couple years later to form the Kingston Trio.

Herb gives a voodoo chant over home brew for coming House of Five parties. Master brewer Hugh Smith was also banjo and guitar player for our many parties.

During this extended period while all we engineering students worked on our Ph.D. theses, Tony Siegman and I returned to our Hughes Fellowship friends for another fling on a two-masted schooner from Long Beach Harbor to Avalon on Catalina Island.

Bill Caldwell surveys Avalon Harbor as we make our motored approach to anchor. Tony Siegman is in right foreground with butch haircut.  Walt Baldasti is in front of him with dark shirt and hair.

Other friends at stern while under sail: Judy with dark glasses, Bobbie Peterson in red shirt behind her.

I took this best photograph of my life on this sailing, and I can't remember her name!

Shortly after returning to Stanford, a group of us camped overnight at the Pinnacles. I'm standing with Gay Dursten while Tony Siegman unloads in the background.

Fearless Mary climbed up a rock for this picture while on the trail.

My stomach still twinges when I view this picture of Mary just off the trail on an overhanging ledge.

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