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...Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry W. Greist, 67, an Indianian who sequestered himself in that remote community as a medical missionary 15 years ago, sent out word that to make more coffins he would be obliged to dismantle outhouses...
Coal was getting scarce in his little hospital. However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...
...Jones (C), 6-3, 6-1; W. S. Arensberg '33 defeated Stevens (C), 6-0, 3-6, 6-4; G. D. Key '33 defeated Mets (C), 4-5, 6-4, 6-3; Eder (C), defeated Morton McMichael '33, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4; H. R. Woodard '33 defeated Greist...
Doubles--Barnaby and Inglis defeated Stevens and Mets (C), 6-4, 3-6; Morhead and Jones (C) defeated Arensberg and Key, 6-4, 6-1; Eder and Greist defeated G. P. Webber '33 and Woodard...
This vast memorial includes 700 acres. It was presented to Yale University as a memorial by Mrs. Ray Tompkins to her deceased husband, one of Yale's greatest-early athletes and captain of the 1884 football team. Formerly, the tract was the property of John Milton Greist, who devoted it for more than two decades as a preserve for deer, elk, and other big game...