Freezing

To the editor:

In response to the letter "How Much Snow?" (David Sheldahl, 
May '95 Iowa Stater, writing about the winter of 1936), I 
know you could walk on top of the snow drifts and touch the 
telephone wires.  Many of us went in the east door of the 
Memorial Union and out the west door. That caused our ears to 
freeze. The ears were painted with Merthiolate. Lots of brown 
ears were on campus.

--Elton A. Whitmore ('36), Sarasota, Fla.

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