When Jerry was born, we selected long time family friends, Dot and Bob, to be his godparents. Dot was always full of life and great fun to be with. Bob had earned his doctorate and worked for the NY State Government, but he felt unappreciated and could get a bit tedious at times. However, they were splendid examples to others and great godparents for Jerry. Shortly after Jerry was two years old, we moved to Hawaii to teach school. Of course, in the early sixties Hawaii was a very popular vacation spot, and since it had been recently declared a State of the Union, even more so. We had lots of visitors in the three years spent teaching there. Dot and Bob even came for a visit, and we eagerly looked forward to showing them around this beautiful island state.
On one trip to the windward side of Oahu, Bob got into the swing of pronouncing Hawaiian words. We passed a sign for a road: Like - Like. Bob wanted to know why a road was labeled like - like and pronounced it that way. I replied, "No, it is a Hawaiian word and pronounced leekay - leekay." Bob got the idea and very excitedly soon saw another sign and said, "Let me pronounce it, Peepay Lean-ay" "No," I said, "It is pipe line." How we laughed.
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