The Professor & the Coed by Mark Gribben

Author:Mark Gribben
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

“She Considered It Her Right to Dictate My Movements…”

But by early June 1929, Snook was chafing under Theora’s constant criticism and demands. He wondered where this relationship of convenience was heading. He was planning on taking some time the next week for a short vacation and had promised to take his wife and baby to see his mother. A few days away from Theora would do the trick, he thought. As the poet wrote, distance in a love affair can be like wind with fire: it extinguishes the small and fans the great. In any event, being with her twice a week was beginning to get tiresome, and the situation was likely to worsen in the short run. With her out of class all summer, she would be bored and want even more of his attention.

Things had been going along in this manner for several months. The affair’s excitement had worn off, and they were more like two conspirators bound together forever by a shared but now regretted crime. More often than not they fought.

On Sunday, June 9, 1929, the professor was changing into his golf attire at the Scioto Country Club. Deciding to play a solo round of afternoon golf in an effort to clear his head, he had already called for a caddy. At the next locker over, Charlie Druggan, an attorney in Columbus, was also preparing for a golf match and asked Snook to join him and another man. Snook politely agreed.

The men were waiting their turn at the first tee when a boy came out of the clubhouse and told Snook he had a telephone message. Snook called the number and got no answer. He asked the attendant what the call had been about. “He said someone called me and said it was important,” Snook testified at his trial. “I called back again and then told him to take the message and say that I would be in at 5 o’clock.”

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