Bob, Raymond Anderson is 86 years young and he is so proud of his tree.. One of his daughters lives in Virginia and she visited the National Champion for her dad...to get pictures and check out the competition! She told her dad that the Virginia tree should have some points taken off for being ugly. Raymond always loves to relate this story with a big grin on his face. I guess one of the owners actually had many of the lower limbs cut off so you could see the house better or something. Raymond just looked at me and said "can you believe someone would do that?"
Raymond is an ENT even if he doesn't know it! One of the interesting things that I learned about him is that he was a crew member of a B-24 bomber in the second world war. I'm not certain but I think he was the navigator. This could partly explain his ability to measure better than most people. He doesn't say much about this experience as it was quite bad, but one of the guys in his squadron was Jimmy Stewart. Some of the guys asked Jimmy about his time back home but he just said that that was not what he was there for. I got the impression that Raymond had a good deal of respect for him even though he didn't say so. Doug --- On Sun, 1/3/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Ohio champion white oak > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 12:07 PM > #yiv1753424081 p > {margin:0;}Doug, > I agree. Raymond Anderson > is to be congratulated. I'll bet there are dozens of > Ents (who just don't know they are Ents) out there. We > need to find them and woo them. > Bob -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
