Lucy introduces Ethel to Maurice (Matchmaking and the Southern Pacific)

[amended later on 5/2, edited for clarity since name repetition is confusing, and to add a factoid about biofixs photos]
I've wondered how my great-grandfather Alvin Barton Barber met Lucy Lombardi.  Both families had lived in Portland, Oregon, but both Alvin and Lucy had left by the time their engagement is announcement in The Smart Set column of the San Francisco Call in 1908.  That mystery (which may not be a mystery to some other family members)  remains a little obscure.

For a different mystery, my father sent the Cesar Maurice Lombardi letters to lots of Lombardi descendents and I heard back that my great grandmother may have been responsible for introducing a fellow Bryn Mawr student to her brother Maurice Ennis Lombardi.  Ethel Rogers Peck came from New York State

She graduated the same year as Lucy Lombardi.

Maurice went to Yale University and finished in 1900 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He then enrolled at UC, Berkeley where he continued his father's tradition of being well-rounded and received a bachelor of science degree in 1904. He then became a Petroleum Engineer working in San Francisco, but living in Berkeley.



His father notes that he worked for a company who worked on the California oil fields of the Southern Pacific, a phenomenon described by Upton Sinclair and portrayed recently in the movie, There Will Be Blood (2007). Here's a headline from 1907 when Maurice must have hit his stride:

So when does Lucy introduce her friend Ethel to Maurice. The answer I think is in the letters by the Grandfather to the Grandchildren. The Cesar Maurice Lombardi notes he took the younger Maurice with him to Lucy's graduation in 1904 (and heard W. T. Stead speak to him to him through a medium**). So this is a likely chance, since Maurice had mostly been in California since Lucy began at Bryn Mawr.

But I will have to do some more searching to see if Ethel Peck shows up as a visitor in California. It might help if I go find out when Ethel and Maurice were married. So if someone wants to comment on that, I will go search it down. I did the research and found Mrs. Ethel Peck Lombardi listed in the
Woman's who's who of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (American Commonwealth Club, 1914):
**I'll complete a research task for anyone who can tell me in a comment something interesting about W. T. Stead besides the circumstances of his death. Here's his picture, just to entice you into the challenge:

There's another interesting set of images at: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/william-thomas-stead-biofix-pictures.html.  The photo fans in the readership should check them out, they are panoramics called biofixs that show a person. The link is to an article about flip-books.