Subject: Reekie From: Naniha@aol.com Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:47:27 EDT To: jch@jch.com, ggh@jch.com, mlhardenbergh@juno.com, c_hardenbergh@juno.com, 42beach@mymailstation.com, hardenbergh@mail.com, Hardenbergh6@aol.com Nancy Chalmers Hardenbergh recollections of Reekie the dog. May 24 2002 Rectory Reekie the dog. Black cocker spaniel, Reekie is the nickname for Edinburgh meaning "smokey." No idea where she came from, but all four girls at home. Before that was a Scottie, dead before Reekie came. Mom went to Art School from the Rectory and graduated from the Rectory. HS 38 grad art school 42, stayed til fall of 43, got job in war plant. Met at the factory on October 6 1943. Went to FL for Christmas. Came back and met Collis at Alice and Lincolns in Chevy Chase (?) January 1? He gave her ring in a box and she didn't want to open it, afraid she wouldn't like it, was something I had to wear the rest of my life. Then he said "you always said you wanted a diamond." What? That got me to fling it open. Was nice that neither of us liked diamonds. Had an engagement party at Alice and Lincoln' s. Perry was there and Eliot Noyes. Got married a month later. It was war time. Reekie went to Florida with Alan. How did she get to Aunt Agnes? Definitely Collis had her put to sleep when we were at Aunt Agnes. He thought she was dangerous. He didn't want a dog anyway. He said she had been snapping at a kid. Just had her put to sleep. Told me he was going to do it, picked up the dog and left.