Article April 15, 1972 Issue

The Value of Expectancy

LAWRENCE R. WOOD

A college student, on her way home for the Christmas season, ran into blizzard conditions as her train neared her destination. She was accompanied by a classmate invited to spend the Christmas holidays at her home. Gale winds had piled snowdrifts high. Telephone poles were down. Stalled automobiles dotted the deep white highways.

It had been planned that the student's father would meet them at the station for the drive home, a distance of about eight miles. The friend expressed concern that the father might not be able to reach the station, that the two might have to stay in a dark and freezing depot all night. "Don't worry," said the daughter. "He'll be there."

And he was! Knowing that some of the winding roads would be difficult, if not impossible, for a car, the father had hitched up an old horse-drawn sleigh stored away in a barn, unused for several years. In some places he had cut across open fields to avoid road hazards. But he made it.

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