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