from Peter W. at Cornell and BNL

I was a postdoc at Cornell when Leif was there as a grad student.  At noon, I would go for a run with Hywel White, his thesis adviser.  I kept up with Hywel as he moved from Ithaca to Brookhaven and then to Los Alamos.  Hywel told me that one Christmas, either he or Leif (I forget which) was given an aluminum canoe as a present.  Hywel and Leif decided to go canoeing in Fall Creek.  After a time, the canoe turned over.  Hywel said that both he and Leif were surprised at how cold the water was and quite glad that they didn't have far to go to reach shore.