Strauss timeline

I got back from LA on Thursday, April 28. Now that all the photocopied materials from Stanford and Berkeley have arrived, I am spending time reading every page in detail and inserting tidbits that refer to Strauss into a huge, detailed timeline. I am afraid the timeline is turning into notes for a book, a book I don't intend to write.

The more I read, the more I would like to know about Strauss' business and family firsthand. The business letters don't tell what was really going through his mind, and they focus primarily on the GGB project. Strauss had two sons. One went to Stanford and one went to Westpoint. The Stanford son Richard K. made it onto the company letterhead as Contracting Engineer some time mid-1935. I don't know what happened to the other son, Ralph V. Strauss. Or to Strauss' widow Ethelyn Annette. Perhaps I should track the families down!