The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project The Interpreter Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Number 117 Remember September 11, 2001 [email protected] November 1, 2007

Our Mission The Swope family was very of the capital region. It should be Roger Hackett, prominent in the Harrisburg noted that during his Judgeship, In the Spring of 2000, the community and in public he approved the petition for the Professor Emeritus of Archives continued the origi- political life. Guy Swope, the establishment and funding of the History nal efforts of Captain Roger Judge's father, was Governor Penn State University School of "Zuru Zuru Koko Ni Pineau and William Hudson, Kimashita" General of Puerto Rico upon Medical at Hershey. Judge and the Archives first at- appointment by President Swope was highly regarded as a (Cont’d) Roger landed on his tempts in 1992, to gather the Franklin D. Roosevelt. true gentleman, described by his feet quite nicely at Carleton, papers, letters, photographs, The Judge was a graduate of acquaintances, as a man of high where he had a work-study job and records of graduates of the Harrisburg School system intelligence and most perceptive as a scullion in the women's the US Navy Japanese/ and an excellent student who in legal issues; he had a dorm. He laments the fact that he Oriental Language School, enjoyed a popular reputation at congenial personality whose "was never able to rise to the University of Colorado at the William Penn High School leadership was direct; he was high rank of waiter." As Roger Boulder, 1942-1946. We Campus where he was a good and fair and very was settling in, his mother and assemble these papers in cheerleader captain. He received considerate in his conduct of the sibling heeded the U.S. recognition of the contribu- his B.A. Degree from Duke court's business. government's advice and slipped tions made by JLS/OLS University where he graduated as The judge is survived by his out of Japan and over to instructors and graduates to a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He wife Jean M. Swope, two sons; Minnesota. His father had the War effort in the Pacific received his L.L.B. from the Mark D. of Lower Paxton financial responsibilities related and the Cold War, to the Dickinson School of Law, and Township, and Kurt F. of to his work and couldn't get out creation of East Asian attended both the University of Geneson, Texas and three until late in 1941 (barely making language programs across Puerto Rico and the University grandchildren. His brother, it out at all). Roger's studies at the country, and to the of Colorado. Harold Swope, an active and Carleton were summarily development of Japanese- In 1942, Judge Swope respected practitioner in the interrupted by the bombing of American cultural rec- enlisted into the U.S. Navy and Dauphin County Bar, Pearl Harbor, at first a shock and onciliation programs after served 43 months of active duty predeceased him. then a determinate. With World War II. in the U.S., India and Japan. He Therefore be it resolved that America's entry into the war and Memorial Resolution achieved the rank of lieutenant in the passing of Judge Lee F. Japan a sudden enemy, Roger senior grade and performed Swope, the community has lost had become the "go-to" guy on Upon the Death of duties in the capacity of Japanese an outstanding public servant campus for questions about Judge Lee F. Swope language interpreter for the and a dedicated citizen, the Bar Japan. He found there were Naval Intelligence Division. In and Judiciary has lost an many he couldn't answer. Roger Former Dauphin 1949, He was admitted to the affectionate and devoted had for years seen the home front County President practice of Law. He was a husband and father. of the Japanese war effort, and Judge Lee F. member of the Dauphin County, And resolved further that the had even seen the destruction Swope died Pennsylvania Supreme and members of the Dauphin County wrought in Shanghai when he January 10, 2003 Superior Court Bars. He was a Bar Association, in meeting traveled there with his high at the age of 81 in member of the Dauphin County assembled, mourn the death of school basketball team. But the the Harrisburg and Pennsylvania Bar our esteemed colleague, Judge bombing and subsequent war hospital. Associations as well as the Lee F. Swope and tender our with the U.S. was a lot for a In his passing, the bar and the Pennsylvania Judicial sympathy and condolences to his Japan-raised American teenager judiciary have lost an able Conference and the Conference widow and sons. to come to grips with. Roger lawyer and a loyal colleague. of State Trial Judges. And resolved further that eventually made the decision to Judge Swope was appointed to The Judge was a former copies of this memorial serve the U.S against Japan and the bench in 1961 presiding over Assistant Attorney General, and resolution be spread upon the joined the Navy Japanese the orphan's court when it Director of the Pennsylvania records of the Dauphin County Language School in Colorado functioned as a separate entity. Bureau of Corporations Courts and Dauphin County Bar (he and Chuck Cross were the He then served as President Department of State (1956- Association, that the original two youngest there). Naturally Judge of the Dauphin County 1960). He was a member of the copy be filed in the office of the athletic, Roger quickly jumped at Court of Common Pleas from Pennsylvania Board of Finance Prothonotary, and that copies be a Navy school opportunity to 1972 until his retirement in 1991. and Revenue (1955-1960). transmitted to his widow and join the Marines, feeling the Prior to the formation of the In politics, he was the family. action of the branch would be present Commonwealth Court, President of the Dauphin County Respectfully Submitted: preferable to what he felt was an he was a Judge on that court Young Democrats in 1957 and Hon. William W. Lipsett, Chairman inevitable Navy desk job. from 1961 to 1989, which served as Vice Chairman of the Hon. H. Joseph Hepford Meanwhile, other Hacketts jurisdiction was included during Dauphin County Democratic Hon. G. Thomas Miller served the war effort in other that period in the Dauphin Committee from 1958-1960. He Hon. Carol F. Purdy ways. Roger's older sister County Court. was a member of the board of Hon. Warren G. Morgan Elizabeth would eventually Judge Swope was born in the Big 33 and received a Hon. Clarence C. Morrison marry a second-generation Harrisburg, PA, to the late Guy lifetime achievement award from Hon. Joseph H. Kleinfelter Dated: May 21, 2003 Japanese-American she met J. and Mayme Gerberick Swope. the family and children services ______while working as the Camp Commander's secretary at the indeed; and the months in Japan people she mentioned], So far, I have on Chinese religion for Army Japanese Language School were delightful and interesting. I been successful…. (to be cont’d) Encyclopedia Britannica's 15th in Minnesota. Harold was a non- wouldn't change a thing. From a Polly Fleming edition. ______religious conscientious objector purely selfish point of view, I Thompson is survived by who spent the war years in a war was probably the most fortunate Laurence Thompson Grace, his wife of 62 years; five camp. A lifelong writer/poet person who served in the Navy children; eight grandchildren; /musician, he refused to accept during WWII. I came to the Chinese Religion Expert and 10 great-grandchildren. the brutality of the world and armed services late, was posted Laurence G. Thompson, From a Times Staff Writer never ceased in his own way to in the middle of the Rocky professor emeritus of East Asian LA Times, July 31, 2005 soften it. 180 of Harold's letters Mountains for most of hostilities, languages and cultures at USC & David Hays Editor and Archivist were donated to the rare book was in Times Square on VJ day, ______and a leading expert on Chinese collection here at Michigan as arrived in Japan after there was religion, has died. He was 85. "radical" literature. Harold's no danger and the Japanese were A Long Friendship Thompson, who had been in letters to Roger during and about eager to please, had very little failing health, died July 10 in A story in a recent Interpreter the war were a constant source of work to do, was assigned a Jeep Ventura, former colleagues reminds me of the long orientation. and a pass authorizing me to go reported. The cause of death was friendship I have enjoyed with a What he stood for deeply anywhere in Japan, had not announced. Japanese gentleman. During the affected Roger who tried to agreeable superiors to work for, The Sinologist was born in early months of the Occupation, persuade officers and Marine's to collected interesting souvenirs China's Shandong province and I was assigned, along with capture the Japanese (as opposed (NavTechJap was known lived there the first 14 years of another officer or two, to go to shooting at them) when the contemptuously to the Army and his life. He earned a bachelor's aboard the Japanese light cruiser chance arose. The war was a other Navy Units as degree from UCLA in 1942. Sakawa, to help with the particularly human tragedy for "NAVTECHSOUVENIR"), was During World War II, he transferal of the ship to the US the Hacketts. Roger felt the U.S. never in the slightest danger, got attended the US Navy Japanese Navy. One of the officers was was "right," but meeting one's to meet a lot of interesting Language School at the LT Toru Abe, a line officer who childhood on the battlefield was people, saw more of the world University of Colorado and spoke better English than I did an irrepressibly bleak than I ever would have without served in the Marine Corps as a Japanese. We stayed aboard undertaking. (to be cont’d) the Navy, I was perfectly Japanese-language interpreter. several days, at the Kure Naval Center for Japanese Studies willing to do anything the Navy After the war, he received Base near Hiroshima. University of Michigan needed me to do, but the need to masters and doctoral degrees After trying to put Sakawa in Winter 2000 Newsletter face danger never arose. And, from the Claremont Graduate shape to sail her to the Bikini ______maybe not best of all but certain School, now Claremont Graduate bomb test, she turned out not to Conversation valuable, all the time I was in University. be seaworthy. She was Hawaii and Japan I was Thompson served in the U.S. eventually towed to Bikini. With a Marine considered to be on "detached Foreign Service in , LT Abe was demobilized and [to Aubrey Farb,] I felt that my duty" and was paid per diem in ; ; ; and returned to his family home in Japanese was inadequate to addition to regular salary. The and on the staff of Tokyo. I was assigned to the qualify me as an check I received at Discharge for the Asia Foundation in and Navy Captain (in civilian life, INTERPRETER AND back pay saw me through Taipei. the Dean of the U. of Iowa Law TRANSLATOR, though I had a Graduate School two years later. An accomplished classical School) who was preparing the Certificate to that effect. I had I was discharged in violinist, he started his teaching Navy’s case against the major virtually no technical vocabulary Charleston in May 1946 and career at Taiwan Normal Japanese war criminals. (beyond the Kaigun Tokuhon), hurried home to Clemson to see University, where he taught While I was in Tokyo, I and I had to look up virtually my wife and three month old music from 1959 to 1962. He visited Abe’s family a number of every kanji -- far more than I son, who was on the way when I taught at for times, taking items to them that recognized from Boulder study left the States. I've lived here three years before joining the they could not buy. Although I had done pretty well ever since, with two years out at faculty at USC in 1965. I was demobilized after a in the little bit of Gyosho and the University of Pennsylvania to At USC, he was chairman of bout of rheumatic fever. Abe and Sosho we had at Boulder, I complete a Ph.D. and another the East Asian department from I continued our friendship by was almost lost when it came to year later as Fulbright Professor 1968 to 1970 and 1972 to 1976. mail and I sent him CARE reading handwritten Japanese, in Austria. I stayed in the From 1972 to 1974, he was also packages for a couple of years. and I never did get enough Naval Reserve for seven years the first director of the USC East He reentered the JSDF and rose practice to feel comfortable with after discharge, went on active Asian Studies Center. to the rank of commodore, and, either a newspaper or duty for a couple of weeks each Thompson is credited with if I remember right, was at one handwritten documents, or summer, but resigned in 1953, I being a pioneer in the study of time in command of their naval blueprints of ships. All in all, think it was. (to be cont’d) Chinese religion. Colleagues said academy. He came to the the best move the Navy made to Morris Cox that his books, "Chinese Philadelphia Navy Yard for OLS 1945 avail itself of my services was to ______Religion: An Introduction" and training and we spent several put me in the editing job at Pearl "The Chinese Way in Religion," days together. Harbor, where I had expertise. Class of May 1944 were considered models of My wife and I saw Abe and The Navy could have saved itself (Cont’d) I’m giving a New Year’s many-sided and astute analysis. his family each of the four times the expense of sending me [party] at 3 PM, January 1, 2006 – His bibliography of studies of we went to Japan. We still through fourteen months at my last [103 next January]? Who Chinese religion in Western exchange Christmas notes. He is Boulder by making me an editor knows – but something tells me you languages, which he continued to the oldest friend of the many we in the first place. and I have the genes. We thank God, update in retirement, is made while teaching English in Nevertheless, I value the though, it entails losing most friends. considered a basic resource in Osaka. Boulder Experience very highly We need to make new ones [We sent the field. He also wrote the entry Dean H. Towner out new address lists to her and most JLS 1944

[Ed. Note: A long delayed, but still and we got a palace they gave us. Conversation Ozamoto, Miss Nakasone (who It was very nice. We had a good was beautiful and charming and appropriate sentiment about the With a Marine creation of friendships between time getting to know the 20 a fine pianist), Bach, Kuyper, former enemies.] British in the office next door. (to Aubrey Farb Cont’d) Toki (whose wife was a good ______They had a party and we were Following retirement in 1981 as cook and taught my wife how to With Larry Thompson invited, so we returned the favor. Dean, College of Liberal Arts, make lamb stew), Mr. and Mrs. On Bougainville One night they had a bunch of Clemson University, I applied McAlpine, Sato. Since most of unauthorized visitors. Twenty for Law School at the University them were older than I, they I remember when we all arrived officers and men were asleep in of South Carolina, was accepted, have probably departed the on Bougainville, bivouacked at their barracks room inside of graduated in 1984, passed the scene. Actually, I knew more rd the 3 Marine Division HQ. We their mansion, when in snuck South Carolina Bar Exams, and Sensei than students. (end) all dug foxholes: Walt Williams, several dozen Dacoits, priests by have been practicing Law with a With all good wishes, Larry Thompson, Tad Van Brunt day and bandits by night. They firm, Olson, Smith, Jordan, and Morris Cox, OLS 1945 and I. We were going to sleep in stole in quietly, each with a Cox, P.A., ever since. Now, at (Headley Morris Cox, Jr. our foxholes when a pistol in his hand, silently age eighty-nine and three to the Navy) ______conversation developed stationing themselves at the quarters, I'm semi-retired, "Of concerning our possible heads of each bunk, pointing it at Counsel" at the Firm, doing a bit assignments as to who should the heads of each sleeper, in case of law work but spending most Paul Robeson remain at Division HQ, in the they moved. They all slept of my time puttering in my yard Maestro Performance rear, and who should be down at through it. The Dacoits took all and garden. the regiments [the danger their money, weapons, silver and My first wife, Irene (whom I've thought of writing you about increased as one was assigned to watches. They took everything you probably met or saw in my experience with Paul lower headquarters]. All of us of value and left without a shot Boulder), died in 1993 after Robeson for a long time, but made statements giving various fired. We had a visit from fifty-three years of marriage. I since it wasn't directly related to suggestions. Larry said, “Well Dacoits, too. We had a big remarried two years later to my time at Boulder I have I’m married”, and Walt Williams central room where the Elizabeth Shelton Smith, an hesitated. But the piece on Quine retorted, “Well I’m engaged,” bedrooms left off from, and we’d artist, and we divide time and Robeson made me think it and I said, “Well, that leaves me, agreed when Jim Campbell from between our two houses. might be of interest to some of and I’m neither engaged nor Indiana came, that if we heard At Boulder the pressure to your readers. I have taught and married, so I guess it’s the some people rustling around, study was so great that I knew acted in Shakespeare's plays all regiments for me.” we’d come out and shoot them. very few people outside my own of my teaching life and have The next day we got our That didn’t appeal to me because class. I knew Ivan Morris seen the best Shakespearean assignments. I think Larry I thought my men would shoot pleasantly, a fellow named actors here and in England. The st Thompson went to the 21 me by accident. So when I did Smith, Justice (who beat out Ivan very best Shakespearean rd Marines. Walt went to the 3 here some shooting, I stayed in for Valedictorian by a fraction of performance I have ever seen th Marines and I went to the 9 bed and slept through it. It a point), Winebrenner, Duane was Robeson's Othello on liberty Marines [All to regiments]. wasn’t a brave thing to do, but I Flaherty, the Britishers Heath, one weekend in Denver. I can Larry Vincent wasn’t going to get shot by my Quine, Beasley, Kennedy, still hear his voice and feel the JLS 1943 own men. Wilkinson, and a few others. chill I felt so long ago when he [Ed. Note: It looks as if 3rd Marine Somehow I got the I've forgotten most of my said, "Put up your bright swords Division HQ did not place much assignment of going out and Japanese, but can still spout forth or the dew will rust them." importance on marital or turning off the generator that the first few paragraphs of Hagen and Ferrar were also at engagement status, or as any Marine provided us with electricity, Momotaro and can pass the time their very best. I've never seen DI would say, “If the Marines had light, power and so forth. It was another Shakespearean wanted you to have wives or of day with Japanese visitors. I out in the backyard. The fiancées, they would have been can't begin to read a Japanese production that was its equal. backyard was full of high weeds issued to you!” Watanabe Jack newspaper or letter. I wish I P.S: I have never seen anyone Pierce, Bob Stillman, Hart Spiegel, in which there was a family of could. But I don't consider the mention the remarkable landscape and Glen Slaughter were on kraits. Now a krait is a small time and experienced wasted. around Boulder and the moving nd Bougainville, as well, but with the 2 snake, about two feet long, and As I said, I wouldn't change a impact it could have on a struggling rd and 3 Marine Raider Battalions, looks like a thick shoelace. thing. naval student. possibly in more danger yet, if Kraits have deadly poisonous I'd be much interested in your Charles Svitavsky danger accrued with lower venom. Eight minutes after a career after Boulder. If you OLS 12/45- commands closer to the front lines. ______bite, you’re paralyzed and six Newton Steward volunteered for know the whereabouts of any Bougainville but was evacuated for minutes after that, you’re dead. 1945 graduates or of any Sensei, Letter to an Editor illness.] Luckily, I didn’t get bit by one, I'd like to know about them. I Regarding the ______but I saw some of them and had remember several of the Sensei Letters from Iwo Jima Boulder to Bombay, no intention of getting any very pleasantly indeed but have closer. (to be cont’d) forgotten most names. The Will sees healing in 'Letters' To Burma & Back William Morganroth names I recall offhand are GEORGE F. WILL'S cogent (Cont’d) So I finally arrived in OLS (Malay) 1945 Nakamura (the Head Sensei), Feb. 25 Outlook column, "It has Okamoto (a fine person but a the base where I was supposed to [Ed. Note: Mr. Morganroth’s story taken us awhile to shed tears for go, Rangoon. In Rangoon, life reads like a Saturday afternoon tough and demanding teacher), this enemy," about Clint was different. There was one matinee: world travel to European Ashikaga, Hayashi, Shizuoka, Eastwood's movie, Letters From fellow there, an American and Asian capitals, riots, rats, Suzuki, Tatsumi, Tomizawa Iwo Jima, brought to mind 62 officer, who as soon as I got Dacoits, and deadly snakes. What (who composed a poem and years ago when I was on Iwo there, said, “Great,” and left. I next? We found him again!] wrote it in Sosho for each Jima as a Japanese language ______had two enlisted men with me graduate; mine is framed on my study wall), Kitagawa, Ozawa, officer attached to the 3rd chairman of the Progress Weary of the Japanese with his left arm useless, flew Marine Division. Services Committee. Nort and I citizenry's blaming the war the plane 560 nautical miles back The movie accurately both have had a number of terms solely on its military, former to his base on New Guinea. portrays the desolate and as chairman of our church’s Imperial Japanese Navy Aviation The legendary survival flight inhospitable island we were Music Committee and have sung Pilot 1st Class Sakai spoke is memorialized in a painting in fighting over. I only interrogated in the choir for many years. We strongly last August at a Tokyo Sakai's hometown of Kyushu a few Japanese prisoners, who are currently singing in the news conference on the eve of showing his bullet-riddled Zero were usually a source of useful Wallingford Ecumenical Choir, a the anniversary of Japan's 15 carrying him away from information. A man who is small chamber group presenting August 1945 complete surrender: Guadalcanal - upside down. taught that to surrender is to shorter and less familiar sacred "We were ordered to go die for Never mustered out of the dishonor himself and his country works. We have had a number of victory…who gave the orders for Imperial Navy despite the loss of cannot be taught that when memorable trips Europe that stupid war? The closer you his eye, Sakai taught combat captured, all he is required to including narrow-boating on the get to the emperor, the fuzzier pilots until he was ordered back give is name, rank and serial English canals and barge trips to everything gets." into combat over Iwo Jima near number. An important item the Canal du Midi and the Japan, he felt, had for decades the end of the war. He was found on prisoners was their Nivernais Canal. I have spent a whitewashed the war-related wounded four times and was one service record book, worn on a total of twenty-five years on the decisions made by Emperor of only three survivors of the 150 string around the neck, that Board of Managers of the Hirohito and the politicians who pilots in his prewar outfit. contained information on the Wallingford Public Library, were surrounding him. "We were A gifted pilot, but never a soldier's military history. This three of them as president. following his orders," Sakai said strong student, Sakai learned to enabled us to determine which During Nort’s tenure at in a 1995 interview. "After the fly at the Navy Fliers School in unit of the Japanese army the Choate we were tapped to war, the emperor should have Tsuchiura, one of 70 men soldier was attached to and, thus, provide an introduction to quit, shaved his head and retired selected from 1500 applicants. what units we were fighting and Japanese for two avid students. to a temple to take He first went into combat over what armaments they were Since Nort was carrying a full responsibility." southeastern China in 1938. using. Incidentally, I was never teaching load, it fell to me to Sakai, who sent a daughter to Sakai kept meticulous notes in given any instructions on how to devise a prospectus, and that college in Texas to "learn about his combat years and later turned treat a POW. being accepted by a slightly democracy," made more than them into ten books, including

AUBREY M. FARB Houston skeptical language department, two dozen trips to the US over Samurai of the Sky, which was JLS 1944 to plan the lessons and keep the years, meeting many of the made into a 1976 Japanese Houston Chronicle ahead of the rust on our memory pilots he formerly tried to kill. movie. February 27, 2007 of language. We found adequate He made similar trips to Within those notes, ______high school-level books at the Australia, where a captured Zero eventually confirmed by Marylou Siegfried Yale Co-op and supplemented (reputed to have once been flown American records and pilots, was them with copies of our old First by Sakai) is on display in the Sakai's near-miss that could have Williams Aid Sentences. Rose-Innes is National War Memorial in altered history. On 9 June 1942,

(Cont’d) While in Boulder I met still in print and still helpful for Canberra. he shot at a USAAF bomber my husband, Norton Williams. an introduction to kanji. It was Unlike American aces, Sakai named the Heckling Hare over Check back to Ruth Halvorsen great fun, lasted only one had no medals or trophies, his New Guinea base. He Craig’s page: I have always semester, and started one of the except a small one he won crippled the B-26 Marauder's thought we met our husbands at two boys on a career in Japanese against US pilots in a 1971 golf right engine, but was unable to the Luncheonette. Ruthie says it studies. A few years later another tournament at the American down the plane because it dove was the Anchorage, and Nort teacher started some Japanese Fighter Aces Association into a cloud. insists it was the Sink. Well, they students, who were eager to reunion in San Diego. Aboard on a fact-finding are all, or were all, in the same teach, on three years of extra- Most touching of Sakai's mission for President Franklin D. block on “the Hill.” Allowing for curricular classes. This effort has peaceful encounters with Roosevelt was a Texas memory variations, Ruthie’s grown into two full-time teachers Americans perhaps was his congressman, Lyndon B. account of our meeting was and three full yeas of Japanese meeting in San Gabriel during Johnson. In 1964, when Johnson absolutely accurate. offered at the school. (to be 1983 with the US Navy gunner was president, Sakai said he had Following Nort’s return from cont’d) who had nearly killed him over only fulfilled a routine duty by the Pacific (Chichijima, Aomori, Marylou Siegfried Williams Guadalcanal. Sakai chatted firing on the aircraft and that he Okinawa among others) we were WAVE JLS 1944 through an interpreter with considered Johnson, "a real Harold L. Jones, then owner of a patriot deserving the highest married and settled down to From the 1993 WAVE 50th JLS raising four baby-boomers. Nort bed and breakfast in Unionville, esteem." Reunion “Blue Book” went back to his purchasing ______Nevada. Sakai rated the visit one Copyright Challenge Publications position with the Wallingford Saburo Sakai of the great events of his life. Inc. Dec 2000 Steel Company. Following his "His cockpit exploded in Imperial Navy Ace orange flames, and his head went [Ed. Note: This article was, to some early retirement, he taught extent, unrelated to the JLS/OLS, but economics at Choate Rosemary Saburo Sakai, Japan's top- back against the headrest," Jones I thought the readership would like Hall for thirteen years. My scoring living World War Two told reporters at the meeting. "I it. I read his amazing autobiography activities included a year of ace with 64 victories over Allied thought he was gone." But in the 1978. I cannot help but be graduate courses in anthropology aircraft, died on 22 September Sakai's Zero plummeted 7000 relieved that there were few like [2000] in Tokyo after suffering feet, apparently extinguishing the him.] at Yale (before having the ______children) and many years of Girl a heart attack while dining with flames in the dive. Struggling for Losses: J. Maynard Kaplan, Scouting form Brownies through American military officers at the consciousness, he used his silk Atsugi US Navy base in Japan. aviator's scarf - a piece of which Hammond M. Rolph, Albert J. Senior Scouts and the Hausske, Norton Ginsburg, Edward Connecticut Trails Council as He was 84. he later gave to Jones - to wipe Seidensticker, Requiescat In Pace. blood from his good eye and,