99-year-old watch is still ticking
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
On April 16, 1913, The Times-Dispatch published the results of a "Great Subscription Contest." There were three prizes: a pony and outfit, a $35 bicycle and a $30 gold watch. My father, who was 12 years old at the time, was the winner of the third prize.
Fifty years later, in 1963, he gave me the watch as a reward for finishing my master's degree. A few weeks ago I passed the watch on to my grandson, who is in graduate school at the University of Chicago. I gave the watch to him now, in advance of his Ph.D., because I may not be around when he finishes.
I note that the pony is long dead, the bicycle has probably rusted away, but the watch is still ticking 99 years later.
Stuart K. Beal.
Annandale.
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