Letters to the Editor Engelhard remembered

I was much interested in T. P. Mohide’s article on Charlie Engelhard who was two years my junior at our New England boarding school. A classmate told me of an incident aboard one of the ocean liners of the day that was taking Charlie to Europe. As Englehard was walking down the gangplank in Cherbourg, the purser clattered after him with a massive leather golf-bag. “Oh, Mr. Engelhard, Oh, Mr. Engelhard. You won the ship’s pool.”

I often thought of the story as I watched Charlie’s remarkable career unfold, an ongoing testimony on one’s making and attracting one’s own luck and success. His death at 52 continues to be our loss. Terry Ross St. Davids, Penn.