My Library

Just inside the door I found the welcoming committee waiting. It consisted of Dr. Alice I. Bryan of the board of trustees, and a dowager lady whose name I'm sorry I don't remember, but who was a constant benefactor of the ASPR. The welcoming committee also consisted of Dr. Isobel Wingate, Ruth Hagy Brod, and my Zelda Dearest. I hugged each of these ladies, and there was a sudden bursting of flash bulbs and applause. When the glare had subsided, I saw that the venerable premises were packed to the hilt -with hardly any standing room left. I spent the next hour with the welcoming committee being introduced and shaking an endless number of hands. Janet was busy on the third floor showing the lab and demonstrating the brainwaves of those who had the courage to get hooked up. Dr. Osis was busy on the fourth floor giving short lectures about the OOB experiments to groups of people. I later found out that 353 people had signed the guest book before it ran out of pages. But many guesstimated that a thousand or more packed all four of the ASPR's floors. At least thirty media types were in attendance, and it seems that all of the New York area major media sent reps and photographers along.