Word: buds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names to the committee were Douglas Danner '46, president of the Council and acting head of the Committee, Louis G. Hill '46, J. Richard Hunneman '46, Harish Mahindra '46, and Bud Thurman...
Speaking of distinctions, Bud Bloom at 2200 Sunday night was working madly away to reach an "SOL" decision on Japan before the deadline. Poto Holm and Johnny Justice could have told him that two weeks ago. The Japs might as well give up when these reports go in to Washington...
Queen Beaver and Beans. At Anchor age, Bud got a job as a construction worker; in his spare time built the Queen Beaver, a 19-ft. canoe made of Sitka spruce and canvas. In July 1942 they shipped the Queen north to Fairbanks, loaded her with $93 worth of canned foods and sacks of beans and flour, pushed off down the Yukon's Tanana tributary. The great river, first explored by Russians and men of the Hudson's Bay Company, rises in Canada's Yukon Territory and flows north west 2,300 miles into the Bering...
...canned food ran out. Bud and Connie lived off fish, wild geese, snipe and ptarmigan-when they could get them. They spent whole days in icy water holes, waiting for the wary game. Once Bud shot a moose, but Connie never achieved his ambition for her. Friendly natives gave them an occasional bite of "Eskimo ice cream" (blueberries, snow, and seal oil). Sometimes they had so little to eat that they lost all desire for food and meandered down the river "dizzier than sick cats," sipping hot tea in the driving rain...
...autumn drew near the Alaskan sun rose and set in ever-narrowing circles (it was never overhead). Bud and Connie encased themselves in long woolen under wear, never took it off, never washed...