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40_160 Berkeley - Miss Harriet A. Walker, the filer in the University Herbarium, has this month (Nov. 1927) retired and gone to live in an Old Ladies Home at Alden (formerly Temescal) in Oakland. She came to us about 1906. She is now 83 years old. She must therefore have been about 62 when she entered the employ of the Herbarium. She was very slouchy in her dress and general appearance. I well remember Professor Geo. [George] J. Peirce, here to give courses in Summer School, protesting that such a person should be in charge of the Herbarium. She was not, of course, in charge of the Herbarium, but since there has been for ten years only a nominal Curator as far as the flowering plant part is |
40_161 Berkeley concerned, she seemed to be curator. Miss Walton became ill four or five years ago and was taken to the El Reposo sanitarium on Chapel St. in Berkeley. There, the staff bathed her several times. She had an unconquerable aversion to a bath tub and threatened them roundly that if she were put in a bath tub again she would leave the place. Miss Walker thought of herself as very neat and was much incensed when on two occacions President Wheeler stopped her in the grounds and spoke kindly to her and called her Mrs. Brandegee, for Mrs. Brandegee was recognized by everyone a looking most slatternly. Mrs. Parish, has been to call upon Miss Walker at the Old Ladies Home and says, by strategy, the nurses there have gotten her into a bath tub. [cont. p. 159] |
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