REYNOLDS MEMORABILIA: Earle's ring

     Dad bought this turquoise ring during the three months we lived in Tucson, Arizona when I was six, just before he was assigned to Hiroshima. I don't remember him wearing it much on the boat; it was probably too apt to get caught on something or be lost overboard. I think he referred to it as his wedding ring.
     When he divorced Mum and married Hiroshima Women's College graduate Akie Nagano, he wore a wedding ring made of metal from an American plane which had been shot down. I didn't like that one.

REYNOLDS MEMORABILIA: Earle's bookplate

     This was Dad's bookplate. I'm pretty sure it was designed by Ed Fisher, cartoonist for The New Yorker, who with his wife Ann lived in the room off the kitchen of our house on the corner of Whiteman and Livermore in Yellow Springs, Ohio, sometime between 1943 and 1951.
    It shows his scientific studies as a physical anthropologist and his many and varied interests as reader, playwright, actor, tennis player--before he was sent to Hiroshima to study the effects of radiation on children.
     Here is my mother's parents' bookplate.. How come no one has bookplates any more? Oh, that's right, they don;t have books.