Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:18:50 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: David Halterman
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>At 09:36 AM 8/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>What is fascinating to me here is that somebody, evidently in Japan, has
>>catalogued at least two copies of the Son of the WSFA Journal.  I'm
>>guessing that Alexis and/or Ted White *might* still have some copies of
>>that.  Maybe Mark Owings.  But probably Ted and I are the only current
>>readers of the WSFA email list who have ever seen it.
>>

Yo, dude . . .  I very much remember the Don Miller WSFA Journals and the =
SoWSFA.

>>Barry
>
>Excuse me? I lurk, yet still I live.  I too remember both SotWJ and =
Dave
>Halterman.  Barry and I sublet a room from him in the house on Geranium =

>Street, NW for about 6 months in 1973.  He rented other bedrooms to =
Army
>enlisted folks (both sexes), as the house was just a few blocks from =
Walter
>Reed.

Ah, so my fuzzy memory, of atleast Halterman living in DC was right.  & =
the proximity to Walter Reed seems so . . .familiar.

>
>I learned a style of cooking from him I have lived to regret (Open =
fridge,
>take out stick of butter, toss it into whatever you're cooking, serve). =

 . . . and the problem is . . . ? <g>

> He
>was also responsible for the only taste of Chateau D'Yquem I ever had.

I'm guessing that's some sort of fancy French wine? ? ? ?

>
>There were occasional WSFA and SCA events.  At one, Dave and I cooked =
a
>Chinese medieval feast for about 20 SCA members to qualify for our =
Master
>Cook status.  However, no one ever volunteered to clean the house.

 . . . .some things never change . . .

We
>were
>all forced to leave when the landlord decided to renovate and get some =
less
>disreputable tenants.

mjw