By now I was getting accustomed to breaking up affairs around Christmas.
To get over Lorna, I spent a wicked weekend in January with the Jay sisters (separately, each asking me not to tell her innocent virgin-sister) I also became good friends with Dorothy Pocock and spent some time with Kay Corcoran who had been transferred to Montreal and later on married a Chinese doctor in B.C.
In between classes and extra courses, I managed a quick trip to the Adirondacks in February where Natural Stone Bridge and Caves were snowed in and Lydia & Tommy seemed ok.
In late March, I was invited to visit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, to discuss the Summer Fellowship I had been awarded.

Because of the "slack" season, I had the good fortune to be treated as the personal guest of the Associate Director, Dr. Vaughan Bowen, the Director, Dr. Paul Fye and the Geophysicist Brackett Hershey.

I also took the opportunity to visit MIT Professor Henry Houghton in Boston who mentioned a joint MIT-WHOI fellowship program.

In April and May, I studied day and night and wrote some tough exams.

Convocation only took place at the end of May, but in the meantime I had already started my summer fellowship at WHOI and had the audacity to buy an old jeep stationwaggon for $ 1,290 so we celebrated the convocation weekend driving around with DP.