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By A L I C E C U L L N A N E , £<?to P / w , Registrar

Y OU would have liked her too, if you had come upon her as I
did that hot August afternoon back in 1928. She looked so cool,
and I was hot! She was friendly, and I was, at that moment, lonely,
I had just came back from my vacation, and Miss Wyman had gone
on hers. I had been visualizing just then what fun we would be having
swimming if I were still in the bosom of my family.

"Wouldn't you like something cold to drink?" I looked up from
those files, and saw her standing in the door. She wasn't little and
she wasn't big, and her face had a cameo-like quality that was fas-
cinating. I knew she was the new girl in the office next door whose
voice I had heard, and she was, figuratively speaking, offering me a
cup of cold water, when I needed it, although she didn't know it.

Our friendship improved with age, and when she came to work
in the Central Office the next January, Elizabeth Wyman liked her
just as much as I did. She has been here ever since, weathering a