"I don't think it took me more than five minutes to see something that looked like a pyramid," Carter recalled.

He was evidently some one who had come to meet the boat, for Carter did not recall him as a passenger.

Then Carter recalled his father's letter.

Carter recalls that Grove would even correct his spelling errors:

As Carter recalled years later, "That was the first time I ever experienced dealing with a woman who was the boss."

Carter recalls Sahn's expertise in electronics, and she gives him step-by-step instructions.

If a quick choice had been required as in past conventions, Carter later recalled, he would probably have chosen Church.

"His wife spoke up and said, 'We should do it now,' " Carter recalled a few weeks ago.

"We came when he was a freshman - when he wasn't playing," Carter recalled.

In 1973, Carter recalled: "There never was a mass exodus, a confrontation, nothing like that.