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The Family Album
(No comment please, This is Mom's page)


1932 - Age 8 months
Hell, you gotta start somewhere, doncha?

1935 - Age 3
I'm the Cute One on the Right

1937 - Age 5
Ready for Kindergarten at Kensington Elementary, Kansas City

1938 - Age 6
The Brothers Three. yeah I'm asleep

1944 - Age 12
Freshman at East High School, Kansas City

1946 - Age 14
Bought my own bike, gave it a paint job

1947 - Age 15
Junior Year, took ROTC to get out of gym class

1948 - Age 16
Senior, graduated and got out of there! Went to work for Sears

1951 - Age 19
Got bored working at Sears and Joined the Air Force in October 1950
Promoted to Corporal after Tech School

October 1954 - Age 22
Honorable Discharge, back to work at Sears

March 1, 1956 - Age 24
Started work at International Business Machines
A prize if you can guess me...

1968 - Age 35
and another new toy

1975 - Age 43
Gave up motorcycles and customized a 75 Chevy van

March 1981 - Age 49
after 25 years at IBM,
my Quarter Century Club luncheon,
Alameda Plaza Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri

March 1987 - Age 55
Retired from IBM and started a new life of just fun

July 1996 - Age 64
After 9 years of retirement in 1987
- from 31 years of labor(?) at IBM.

December 1996, 3 p.m.
Playing with 'Snappy' and my web pages

June 1997 - 65
and calling Social Security for some more money!

July 1998 - 66
After a fire in my St. Joseph house, moved to Parkville

March 1999 to December 2000 - 67 and a new job, Head Librarian
at MCFP Federal prison at Springfield Missouri

December 2000 - almost 69
Vacation over, back on Federal Supervised Release in Parkville

December 2003 - 71
Finished 3 years of Supervised Release,
a new computer and back online

May 2005 - 73
And no more glasses after 60 years... and a new digital camera

September 2005 - Still 73
And I bought a second computer I didn't need

October 2006 - 74
Another new car? 2006 Grand Caravan... Has more goodies than the 2005 cheapie van

March 2007 - 75
Another new computer? Yep, HP Media Center... loaded and with Vista installed... now what next?

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looking for some more pitchers!


* The Parkville Pages *

~A Tour of Parkville~
~Parkville at Night~
~English Landing Park~
~Progress in the Park~
~Flood of 2007~
~On the River~
~A Parade in Parkville!~
~A Carnival in Parkville!~
~A Riverfest in Parkville!~
~Parkville Farmer's Market~
~Lewis and Clark~
~My Parkville Price Chopper~

* Kansas City Pages *

~To the Kansas City Page~
~The Country Club Plaza~
~The City of Fountains~
~More Kansas City Fountains~
~City of Fountains - Finale~

* My Personal Pages *

~All Those Cars!~
~All Those Motorcycles!~
~South Padre Island~
~Matamoros, Mexico~
~La Corrida ~ Ole~
~Corpus Christi~
~San Antonio~
~Apache Trail~
~The Pony Express Van Club~
~Those Canoe Trips~
~The Boat~
~Them Guns~
~Party Time!~
~The U.S. Air Force and Me~
~Home Cookin~
~Let's Get Smokin~
~McCormick Distillery~
~The Gardens~
~Algunos de los Animales~
~Just Personal~
~The Family Album~
~Famous People Guest List~


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