Roles

Over the years Charles started calling me “The Favorite” because I was always more obedient and easier to manage. This was partially because I was sneakier in my escapades. Charles always got caught. Any misbehavior that he did always cane to light - he made sure of it if I didn’t. He must have liked the disruption even if he got punished for it. 

One interesting factor in our family was that Charles was more popular with the Currie side and I with the Berry side. It worked both ways too. My mother’s family was quite different than my father’s. Both of her brother’s were early engineering graduates of Georgia Tech. Francis Rigdon Berry, the older, was the Chief Engineer of the American Waterworks in New York City. His family lived in New Rochelle.

Her other older brother, Maxwell Rufous Berry, started his own company, The Electric Products Company in Cleveland, Ohio. He was my favorite uncle and probably the main reason I went to Georgia Tech and became an engineer myself. Whenever Uncle Max came to town (see letter to Mark Berry), I was delighted.

The Currie side was dominated by lawyers: Uncle Hec and sons: Hector, Warner, Rodes. His daughter Rachel’s my first love. Daddy’s sister, Isabelle had three attractive daughters: Isabella. Neville, Ann. His other sister, Frankie, had two children, Frances and Richard, who was and remains the youngest in the family.