
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 6, 1990                   TAG: 9003062123
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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GARLAND COLUMN RECALLED MEMORIES

IN READING Ray Garland's (Feb. 15) article on H.L. Mencken, I didn't expect to see the name of Charles Angoff. But I have always credited that gentleman with bringing my husband and me together some 25 years ago.

Arthur was driving a taxi in New York when I met him. We chatted a bit and he asked, "May I call you sometime?" When I got out of that cab I told myself, "That's the man you're going to marry."

He was attending classes at Fairleigh-Dickinson in New Jersey where Mencken's old associate, Angoff, happened to be teaching. In fact, my husband used to drive him back into New York at night, and they got to be good friends.

Well, I was Catholic and Arthur was not, and he was undecided whether two people so different could make a go of it. For every objection Arthur would raise, Professor Angoff would knock it down.

To make a long story short, he did propose, and we've been happily married these 25 years. As a young model in those days I earned my "PHT" degree, or "Putting Hubby Through." And now he's studying prelaw. So I guess I will soon be getting an advanced "PHT" degree.

But it has all seemed very worthwhile, and I am grateful to the memory of a brilliant and kindly gentleman, Charles Angoff, who believed that people should take a chance on what they feel and not get hung up on what are, after all, only superficial differences.\ GINA BERLINER ROANOKE

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