Swiss Diary of Ruth Stoeckly
Swiss Diary of Ruth Crawford April 14, 1932 – September 7, 1934 Edited by James Logan Crawford CONTENTS Page FOREWORD...............................................................................v Chapter 1 Meeker....................................................Apr 14, 1932.................1 2 Garden City, Chicago, NYC....................Aug 2, 1932...............23 3 Atlantic Ocean, France...........................Aug 25, 1932...............31 4 Switz.: Zofingen, Rothrist, Thun............Sep 18, 1932...............43 5 Italy, Menziken, Basel, Langenthal........Dec 26, 1932...............73 6 Mountain Climbing, Winterthur.................Jul 1, 1933.............115 7 University of Zurich.................................Sep 1, 1933.............137 8 Geneva, Biking, England, Home...........May 19, 1934.............163 Appendix 1 Garden City Girl Writes Of Holiday Trip Through Italy..........185 2 Swiss Farmers Have Some Strange Customs...........................187 3 A Glimpse of London as Seen by a Garden City Girl...............193 4 Miss Ruth Stoeckly Tells of Her Interesting European Tour....197 Copyright 2011 by James Logan Crawford Last Modified May 13, 2012 www.CrawfordPioneersOfSteamboatSprings iii iv FOREWARD Growing up, Mom never told me anything about her past life. Of course I knew about all of the Stoeckly relatives - after all, we had a photo on our wall of the 1954 reunion with all of the aunts, uncles, and cousins. And I knew Mom grew up in Garden City, met Dad at the U. of Colorado, and spent a year in Switzerland with the relatives and at the U. of Zurich, but those and other ran- dom facts I'm sure I learned from Dad or my siblings (such as the time I was helping Dad hammer something in his shop and he mentioned that Mom once won first place in a nail-pounding con- test).
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