1959

On a beach in Santa Cruz a group of freshmen were having a hay ride and picnic on the beach. They built a fire, not realizing they were using poison oak kindling. The next day those who sat in the smoke were covered with rashes. One young girl had on a bathing suit and she had to go to the hospital for treatment. I was afraid if they had inhaled the smoke their lungs would be affected but thank heavens they weren't.
A colleague was badly affected by p.o. as a young man. He could never sit where the wind was blowing across p.o. because he would almost immediately break out in a rash without ever having touched it.
My brother remembers a fellow during the war at Fort Ord who thought if he took off all his clothes and rolled in poison oak he could get a discharge. After the hospital, he was put in the brig. bill grant
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