Robert Arthur Breard

In 1967 the Eaton Rapids, Lansing and East Lansing area received 23 inches of snow on a Thursday-Friday in January. Bob and I had planned to visit one of our ER classmates who was living in a dorm at Michigan State University. Our intention was to visit girl friends, attend an on-campus mixer and spend the night.

Bentley street was mostly buried in snow and impassable on Saturday morning. Bob was fairly certain if we could get his car to the road through ER we could make it to East Lansing. We just had to move the car 150 feet or so from the driveway to the road. We knew we couldn't shovel Bentley street, but we thought we could clear two tracks for the tires to follow. Bob measured the wheelbase and we began to remove two feet of snow to create tracks for the tires to follow, without burying parked cars or neighbor's driveways. Two and one-half hours later we pushed, shoved and spun his cars' tires down Bentley street.

After an hour, white-knuckle drive from ER we reached East Lansing. Bob didn't like to give up when-with focused effort-success could be achieved.