1968
We now come to the year 1968. There was right at the beginning an important occurrence, the birth of Emily on January 10th. At that time, Johanna was also expecting a child and the event took place on May 26th, 1968, and was in many respects exciting. Everything seemed to be normal before, but, while Johanna had labor pains, there was a change from a normal cephalic to a transverse position, which required a Caesarean operation. It was a beautiful girl and they gave her the name Lauren. Hedy and I went on one of the next days to Salt Lake City, to be of help to Johanna. Unfortunately, there was another complication, retention of a part of the afterbirth, causing fever and bleeding. The situation seemed to be serious, but was finally corrected by the obstetrician by extraction of a piece of tissue, when we were already there. Johanna was quite unhappy about that mishap, but was soon up and around.
Lauren was only about 2 weeks old, when we all went on a tour by car to the Southeast of Utah near the border of Colorado, to Moab and the Arches National Monument, where there were great many peculiar formations of rock columns, many of them connected at the top by horizontal rocks to neighboring columns, looking like arches, formed millions of years ago by a combination of sedimentation and erosion. We then went to the Dead Horse Mountain, situated at the confluence of the Green River and the. Colorado River, where we had a beautiful view and a fine picnic, and then back to Salt Lake City.
Another trip which we made together with Marvin, Johanna, Nancy, and Lauren was to the enormous Kennecott copper mine, another to the Great Salt Lake for a swim or rather float, since it is not possible to swim in that lake, which was very interesting, but not pleasant at all. There were many spots in Salt Lake City, to which they took us, the famous Mormon Temple with the enormous organ, where we heard a fine concert, and then the also famous monument “This is the place”, built on the spot, where the so-called apostle Smith once decided to settle and founded the city.
