Prof. Hamilton's Diary: April 3, 1935

He secures a banquet speaker; Lusitania's sister ship to be scrapped

Professor Hamilton was basically running a taxi service for most of the day, ferrying Margaret back and forth to the Reading Hospital to stay with Mary Elizabeth and then getting their cleaning woman Mrs. Weaver home. He gave English and history exams at Albright College too.

In the evening, he drove over to West Reading to meet a psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Holmes, and invite him to be the speaker at the Pi Gamma Mu banquet. This honor society in the social sciences was barely ten years old at the time, and it appears Professor Hamilton was the Albright chapter’s faculty advisor. “He is a young man, very pleasant, & I liked him very much,” he wrote. Back at home, he talked with Margaret and studied a bit before going to bed.

A brief item on page 1 of the Reading Times told of plans to scrap the Mauretania, sister ship of the ill-fated Lusitania. Paid subscribers can read on about the very different “lives” of these ocean liners.

The photograph of the Mauretania, taken in 1907 on England’s River Tyne, is from Wikimedia Commons.