Marty moved through the world with an easy confidence, tempered by an impish sense of humor. “Ruth was a wonderful student and a beautiful young woman. Most of the men were in awe of her, but Marty was not,” Carr Ferguson, a Cornell classmate and one of Marty’s closest friends, remembered. “He’s never been in awe of anybody. He wooed and won her by convincing her how much he respected her.”
