Saturday night 2-26
Topic: School history
My earliest memory is probably a memory of a memory now. I recall sitting on the bottom step of stairs leading upstairs, reading a book. I think this was in my grandparents' (Dewey) home during WWII. I must have been around 3 years old then. During the war, my Dad was a SeaBee (Navy construction battalion--CB=SeaBee). While he was gone, my mother and I lived with her parents. Grandma Della May Dewey got ill with some kind of brain infection, an encephalitis. The disease caused her to gain a great deal of weight and lose her eyesight. Her treatment cost a lot of money. Grandpa became a motorcycle policeman to pay for the costs. She was treated at a Seventh Day Adventist hospital; they told him not to worry about the costs. A drunken driven ran through a red light and hit him on his motorcycle, causing back injury. The retirement for a full career was larger than for disability, so he served out his career as a dispatcher. We have a record of his marriage ceremony to Imogene which also has recording of him talking on the radio as a dispatcher. He retired as a Sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department.

My next memories begin after we moved into the house at 2039 Fifth Street in San Fernando, California. I recall my mother waking me up from a nap to tell me that I was to start kindergarten. I remember my third grade teacher, Mrs. Baker. My fifth grade teacher, Miss Margaret Carter, was a good friend of my grandmother, Gurda Duffin. She had white hair which she dyed a light blue. She gave me a "D" in handwriting at the half-semester grading. I practiced handwriting until I passed. My handwriting never has been much better. I went to Morningside Elementary School from kindergarten to the fifth grade. My dad also went to school there. In the sixth grade, I went to the newly built Dyer Elementary School. Gloria went to Morningside Elementary throughout. We both went to San Fernando Junior High School and San Fernando High School. The junior high school was originally the high school; my Dad graduated there.

Introduction
Mood:  not sure
Hello Family,
Just thought I'd start a family BLOG, so we can add info whenever we want. I'm sending a disc to all three kids. It has:
1. A PowerPoint show of our recent cruise and all the photos from that cruise.
2. The program for FamilyTreeMaker plus my file as of this date.
3. An MSWord family history.

At your leisure, read the history, then you can add to it by putting stuff on this BLOG and I'll cut and paste your stuff into the master file. I've already gotten a brief autobiography from Todd which is included in the family history, broken into the appropriate date/chapters.

luv u all,
dad