Digby and Mole, our Beloved Parents

Dr. and Mrs. Albert J. Hyde were known as Mim and Al Hyde to their friends.   When my twin brother Jan and I became teenagers we dubbed them Digby and Mole.  To this day, when we talk about them we call them Digby and Mole.  In my dad's eulogy, the rabbi mentioned how the twins used to call him Digby.  

Digby was the first oral surgeon in Pittsburgh.  In those days after dental school at the University of Pittsburgh, there was no graduate program to learn how to become an oral surgeon.  So Digby shadowed a well known surgeon, Dr. Thomas Schubb for many years. 

Dr. Schubb was a relation:  he was the brother of my beautiful Aunt Lil Schubb with whom I spent a summer at her home in Santa Monica CA after my bad time.  Dr. Schubb performed Aunt Ruth's mastectomy. 

Digby and Mole lived 11 miles from downtown Pittsburgh where his office was located.  They built a home, 4600 Gardenville Road, on several acres of land.  This was where I was raised.  To this day, I have dreams about moving back into this home.  They loved to entertain. 

In front of the stone fireplace in the living room of 4600.