Sophie Barrett in China 1931

Sophie Barrett in China p 7 #53 {S} {9}

Sophie was fond of John Greenleaf Whittier's lines "I'm sorry that I spelled the word - I hate to go above you - The brown eyes lower fell - Because, you see, I love you." Iat the Brown school in Hartford she memorized these lines and William Cullen Bryant "So live that when thy summons comes To join the innumerable caravan You go as one whom wraps the draperies of his couch about him And lies down to eternal rest." Mount Holyoke had a long tradition of missionary activities epecially in China.Mount Holyoke President Mary Woolley one of the "ten most admired American women" of her time in polls made an extended visit to China in l922.Sophie's classmate Becky Smaltz recalled Miss Woolley boisterous welcome back to the South Hadley campus. Students composed a song "Will we be your rickshaw coolies, Miss Woolley?" A friend Mrs. Faison Jordon on Sophie's arrival at Tientsin November l4, l930 put her in touch with Mrs. Evans of the Mount Holyoke Club of North China. Through Mrs. Evans Sophie found her former student Grace Liang Mount Holyoke l925. Sophie and Jack Barrett had first tea and then dinner at the home of Grace's father and mother in Tientsin. Grace's father was known as M.T. Liang, though that was not his original name. He had attended Hartford Public High School, Connecticut, graduating about l880, but then a change of Chinese government polict required his return hom. He had a career in North China railroads and customs service and them diplomatically. Sophie understood he was the first Chinese to be invited to speak to theUnited States Congress. Apparently this was at the time of the Nine Power Conference l922.Some material is in files at Williston College Liobrary Historical section Mount Holyoke. Then Jack Barrett invited Mr. and Mrs. Liang to be guests aboard the gunboat TULSA at the docks in TIENTSIN. This was a rare and unusual honor for a Chionese in those days, to have dinner on a U.S. ship. Word womehow got around, and a large and respectful crowd cme to the dock to watch them go aboard. The crowd kept at a distance out of the way. Soon Grace was married to Dan Yapp of Shanghai. After World War II she taught high school in Connecticut and around l970 lived on Kalakaua Avenue, Waikiki, Hawaii.Sophie corresponded with her in l970's

view of Pagsanjan canyon southeast Luzon Philippines Jan. 1932

Pagsanjan canyon, southeastern Luzon, Philippines p 3 #24

One of the most enjoyable events on Sophie and Jack Barrett's ;l932 world tour was a day trip from Manila to southeast Luzon, where they were guests in a guided canoe tour. One photo of Sophie in a canoe survives l993 thefts. The trip is recommended for all first -and- second honeymooners. Astron--Constellations Lloyd Motz Carol Nathanson 523.8903- Bet M0Ia. diam 920 sun.-550 puls 2070 days semireg he4+he4 = Be8. +he4 - - C12 + gam RIgel LEF LEG TRIPLE 150 S LUM bELLATRIX 5H 22' +6,18' MAG 1.64 saiph K ORIONIS sword color -.16 700 parsecs BO Ia. abs. mag -6.8 50,000 s lum. p.98 -eta handle ofsword Saif al jabbar close optical double eclipsing like b Lyrae. MINTAKA "the Belt" Delta Or 20,000 s. lum. 450 parsec 1500 ly. abs mag -6.0 col +.21 5.7 day eclipsing binary.Interstellar matter Mintaka's spectrum K lines on calcium in stars O5 to B3 Doppler. Alnilam epsilon string of pearls 45,000K B0 Ia color -.18 -abs mag -6.8 single star radial veloc 26.1 km/sec 500 parsecs 1630 ly 51 parsecs from Mintaka or 163ly - Alnitak zeta girdle mag -6.2 O9.5 Ib col -21 s lum 35,000 - 1600 ly-500 parsec moving away from "Belt stars -TRAPEZIUM Theta-1 theta open cluster popul I stars p 282 Cygnus V444 Cygni 20 h 17.7' +38,34' nne of P Cygni Wolf-Rayet 17 million milews from O four day period.--few hundred WR abs mag -4 to -8 60000 - 100,000 surf temp K radii about twice sun V444 4900 ly-- Wr 18 solar masses 1450 lum 2.3 s radius. He++ C N O Si ions gas shell expanding inner 3 x rad s thin outer 8 times radius

View of Phantom Ship lava islet Crater Lake from Kerr Notch June 1947

Phanton ShipCrater Lake from Kerr Notch p 3 #23

June 28 or June 29, l947. Barrett family arrived from Redwood Highway and Crescent City California June 27, l947 in heavy snowstorm approaching Cater Lake Lodge, with the largest fireplace in state of Oregon. Weather was clear June 28-29, and road was open to southeast to Kerr Notch, where Jack took photos in clear sunshine. The north rim and sixty per cent of the rim Drive remained closed with late spring snow accumuilation. The Barretts proceeded to Portland and Columbia river via Eugene and Willamette River after return to Grants Pass, where they were forced off road by out-of control big lumber truck,but truck driver and passing motorists assisted getting l937 Lincoln Zephyr out of ditch and back on road.

Jack Barrett,Sophie,Mollie at Yosemite Valley 1947 from Christmas card

p6-45 Christmas card near Merced River Yosemite Valley - Mollie Barrett at left; Sophie center, Jack at right {M} {S} {J} {Y}

Photo by John Barrett, junior, about June 20, l947 in Yosemite Valley near the Merced River. Commander Barrett and fmaily left Honolulu June 4 on Army transport GENERAL RANDALL and arrived San Francsico June 10.Mollie Barrett took sux weeks leave from Metropolitan Life Insurance South Boston Office and flew to San Francisco. The family stayed at Hotel Californian while Jack made reservations via American Automobile Association and prepared l937 Lincoln Zephyr automobile.Sophie was recovering from surgery.Barretts saw Harry Meranski's sister-in -law Marion Taylor, a nurse then in San Francisco, who had visited several times in Brooklyn l940-l94l.They visited Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, Golden Gate andSan Francisco Bay Bridges, and Twin Peaks.Radiator troubles in the old l937 Lincoln Zephyr delayed the trip one day at Merced, California after hot radiator water spurted up and hit the roof of a service station at Modesto. During the week at Wawona June 17-24 the family visited Hetch Hetchy Valley in the north part of Yosemite Park, where the Tuolumne River created a second valley with wildlife and scenery similar to the better-known Yosemite Valley on the Merced River.Unfornunately in l9l3 over objections of John Muir this Hetch Hetchy Valley was flooded as a reservoir for San Francisco. There is new interest today in restoring Hetch Hetchy and removing the dam.Mount Holyoke College art museum has a fine l880's painting of deer grazing in Hetch Hetchy Valley.Kings Canyon near the General Grant giant sequoia is another deep glaciated valley of the western Sierra Nevada.The name means "shining range" and reflects the earlier-named mountains near Seville, Granada Spain.

Barretts Mollie,Sophie,John at Crater Lake (Kerr Notch) June 28, 1947

Kerr Notch Crater Lake, Mollie, John,Sophie Barrett, Phantom Ship p6-46 {S} {M} {Y}

Jack Barrett photo June 28 or June 29, l947 at Kerr Notch, southeast corner of Crater Lake (which is oval and does not have corners). Phantom Ship lava islet is visible.Barrettt arrived at Lake in heavy snowstorm June 27, l947 froj Cresecent City and Grants Passs after touring redwoods and being forced off highway by logging truck.The nothern sixty pper cent of the Crater Lake Rim Drive was closed with snow deposits, and Kerr Notch was the easternmost point open to cars. After the snowstorm there was pleasant sunny weather.Crater lake Lodge was said to have the largest firp[lace in Oregon. Another larger island in Crater Lake, cone-shaped Wizard Island is covered with whitebark pine, whose indehiscent seeds are spread by Clark's nutcracker, a bird related to the crow family and credited by some researchers with remarkable spatial-visual memory.

1920s photo of Jack Barrett sent by Marie Nelson Rowe of Philadelphia to Sophie

Jack Barrett 1920s p 20 #158

photo a gift of Marine Nelson Rowe to Mrs. |Barrett. 1970s. The Rowes were a Charleston,South Carolina family who often entertained Jack when he was stationed there 1921 on destroyer TOUCEY.Marie's father was very friendly to Jack, but would not let the limited-income Naval Lieutenant participate in his high-stakes poker games.Marie's sister Lucile went to Paris about 1924 to study singing with Madame Calve, and later sang professionally in touring productions of Sigmund Romberg's musical \\\\\'Blossom Time," based on the life of composer Franz Schubert.The Nelson sisters were friendly with social worker Ann Taylor (Mrs. Ivan McCormack) who sublet a room 1927-1930 to Sophie Meranski at 27 Commerce St., Greenwich Village, and it was there that Jack Barrett met Sophie Meranski August 1928, which she was studying for an exam at Columbia graduate school. Marie and her husband settled in Philadelphia. One of her friends Rolfe Druen dated one of the Toucey officers 1921. In the1950s Lucile was housekeeper of the Waldorf Astoria, one of the leading New York residential hotels, where General Douglas Mac|Arthur lived in retirement.Lucile continued 1970s in retirement in Carmel, California to write frequently to Sophie and share round robin letters with thweir friend Ivan McCormack on his farm between Salem and East Greenwich, New York

Roxbury Latin lunch room 1952-3

Roxbury Latin lunch room l953 p 35-910

visible left to right seniors John Barrett,Joseph Bonarrigo, Edward Galvin, Robert McLaughlin,RobertMacdonald, James Sullivan- Macdonald lived nearby in Dedham, but the rest lived in West Roxbury less than half a mile from Barrett family corner Emmonsdale and Rustic Roads.- I also have been reading a 1975 biography of the "great lexicographer" Samuel Johnson 1709-1984 by recently deceased Harvard English professor W. Jackson "Jack" Bate , whom I knew slightly years ago.Johnson's early education emphasized Latin very heavily as was then the custom in England. He was a remarkable translator. In the book I ran across the phrase from Horace PRAEMONITUM est PRAEMUNITUM - "forewarned is forewarmed." MONEO, MONERE, MONUI MONITUS is second declension with long E as stem vowel. MUNIO, MUNIRE. MUNIVI, MUNITUS is fourth conjugation with stem vowel I. Figure out from which of these are derived 'admonition' and 'munitions'. PRAE- is one of the prefixes that takes the dative case in the object. Basic meanings of MONEO and MUNIO are 'warn' and 'arm.' --Horace Odes 1- 11 Tu ne quaesieris scire nefas quem mihi quem tibi finem di dederint. Leuconoe nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. Ut melius, quidquid erit,pati seu plaris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimum.Quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum.sapias vina liques et spatie brevi spem longam reseces.dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas.Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. Carpe diem - Horace's most famous line "seize the day." Another famous line "Dum loquimur" = "even as we speak" - loquor, loqui is a deponent verb - conjugated in passive form - meaning to speak = root of words like 'eloquent" 'elocution' 'loquacious'