Alfdorf, Germany

Up about 7 a.m. and listened to the news. Just after 7:30 Repa called and said that Nina had tried to reach me. I called her back and learned that Sister Tamms had committed suicide last night or early this morning. Brother Tamms had called Br. Trautmann. I had breakfast and called Br. Trautmann at work. It’s not yet known which funeral home will handle the funeral, or when the body will be delivered out of the hospital. The criminal police must first clear up fo certain that it was suicide.

I worked at the hotel on the core dump program and went into Repa. Worked with the service engineers. The disk drive and comm adapters were finally working pretty much as they should. I started moving files to the big disk. I worked with Hans Hettich until about 8 p.m.

We went to Hans’s for dinner and had some kind of meat loaf. It was very good. Hans’s wife cooks quite well. We sat around and talked until after 10 pm.

I drove back to the Haghof Hotel in very thick fog. In bed shortly before 11 p.m.

Transcribed from my journal.