Yesterday was another day to remember. First we drove to Fort Worth in the wind and had a nice light rain shower to clean our awfully dirty windshield. Got to the Oncology clinic where our daughter-in-law, Mary Kathryn, met us with a mask to keep her cold germs to herself. I didn't recognize her and wondered who was sitting next to Lou. Lou had her blood tested. MK had to go to a luncheon and missed the Doctor's visit. He reported that the CT scan showed nothing except the scar from the operation. He then performed a visual and digital exam and said there were no problems and she is clear for maintenance checkups with the next one due in three months. We got to see the blood tests and her white cells are all in the normal range and the red cells are just a little below normal. Lou asked about removing the port and he said it was a simple clinic procedure, that he couldn't do it today, but we will call and schedule it after Thanksgiving. Lou asked about getting a flu shot and they gave her one then. He told her that her hair would grow about one centimeter (one quarter-inch to me) a month. So by next March she should have a good head of hair.

We had a 12:30 luncheon date in Denton, left TX Oncology at 11:45, got on I-35 expecting a parking lot and the Lord was with us. We had no traffic problems and got to the luncheon at the TWU Library at 12:35 in plenty of time. After the lunch we toured the Library to see the new arrangement on 2nd floor, rode to the Joyce Thompson Lecture with the new Librarian. Phyllis Bridges introduced Jane Roberts Wood, this year's lecturer with the announcement that Lou would have a book signing March 26, 2007 for her book JANE RUSHING. Wood's lecture was directed to the large student audience and was excellent. In the audience was Joyce Roach, last year's lecturer, Fran Vick, president of TIL, and we were surprized to see Jack and Elizabeth Duncan there. They are old Texas Folklore Society Friends.

We left about 4:30 to drive back to Fort Worth to help celebrate Mark's BD by eating at the Railhead BBQ restaurant with his wife, daughter, Ashley, and his mother-in-law, Mary Carleton. Now yesterday was his sister, Kathy's birthday. I had called her in the morning to wish her a Happy Birthday and told her we would celebrate it with Mark. She said that was OK as long as I ate something chocolate. MK had made a BD cake of double fudge brownies so we celebrated both. Mark's BD is Thanksgiving day and they will be in New York City with Ashley for a vacation trip. That was why we were celebrating Nov. 15.

Nov. 13 was the fiftieth anniversary of the first flight of the B-58, built by General Dynamics and son, Mark, sent me a photo of that flight aircraft by email from Lockheed. That brought back memories of the first large application of my engineering design. I designed the lower center wing panel from the center line out to the wheel well. I also worked with Charles Samson, who later retired from GD as a director, on one of the outer wing panels. I was also responsible for all of the some 18,000 titanium bolts holding the wing panels to the understructure. To save weight each bolt had to be as short as possible to do its job. I followed the construction of ship one through each phase of construction in the plant, including one black Sunday when ship #1 was being assembled in the wing bucks and I found that my wing panels interfered with the wheel well bulkhead requiring some trimming of the bulkhead due to an error I had made in the drawing. That next Monday was a terrible ordeal until Stess agreed that the buldhead could be trimmed. When that first aircraft took off we all sweated whether the wing would hold together and be able to fly at the design speed of Mach 2. It did and we were all proud of our design.