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Comments on: Tales of Brother Germano https://apeekatthepeak.org/tales-brother-germano/ A Scottsdale Community Publication Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave Scott https://apeekatthepeak.org/tales-brother-germano/#comment-2040 Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:26:28 +0000 https://apeekatthepeak.org/?p=13238#comment-2040 Duke and I were brothers in Sigma Chi at the University of Rhode Island attending brotherhood meetings and social events together, but one moment in time I will never forget. As I was riding as a passenger on Upper College Road, I saw a car coming toward us with Duke in the drivers seat. It took a second to realize his passenger was steering before I cracked up laughing. His sense of humor was boundless!

]]> By: The Peak https://apeekatthepeak.org/tales-brother-germano/#comment-2000 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 15:23:35 +0000 https://apeekatthepeak.org/?p=13238#comment-2000 In reply to Ray Lombardi.

Hi Ray, Thank you. The additional information makes sense. I wondered why they would both walk off the edge of the platform. I’ll update the article to include your comment. Have a great summer. Les Conklin ’60.

]]> By: Ray Lombardi https://apeekatthepeak.org/tales-brother-germano/#comment-1994 Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:33:23 +0000 https://apeekatthepeak.org/?p=13238#comment-1994 I’d like to amplify Bob Pearson’s anecdote about Duke’s battle with the New York Subway system. In, I think, the Summer of 1958, Joyce Collins, URI 56′ (Joyce and I married in 1960) gave a party at her apartment on Grove Street in Greenwich Village. Duke and a girlfriend attended (I can’t recall her name but recall that she was also blind). They arrived bubbling with laughter over something that had happened to them on the way to Joyce’s place. As Duke explained, when blind people stand on a subway platform, they gauge the approach of the train by both sound and air pressure. They wait till the train stops and then detect an open door by listening for the hollow space where the opening is.
In this case the train was a car or two short and what they detected as an open door was the very end of the train and they went pitching off onto the tracks. They thought it was a hoot; I turned a couple of shades paler thinking of the 750 volts of high-amperage current they miraculously avoided from the third rail.

Duke was a good storyteller and I have often wondered about this tale. It appears that there are at least two versions of this one.

Ray Lombardi
Delta Sigma “53, URI “57

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