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HERE'S MY KINDERGARTEN CLASS
1956-1957

I can't remember the pictures of Jesus but the aquarium looks familiar and the blocks! She used to say which of you boys has eaten his Cheerios today? We'd say, "Me!" and we would show our great strength by putting all those wooden blocks away.

(SEE WAY BELOW FOR OUR KINDERGARTEN TALENT SHOW PROGRAM)
LOOK AT THE PICTURES OF JESUS CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST!

LOOK I WROTE THREE STORIES ABOUT KINDERGARTEN. THEY ARE CHAPTERS 8, 15, AND 17 HERE. THEY ARE PRETTY FUNNY.
They'll open in a NEW WINDOW. Remember; 8, 15, and 17!


The girl the third from the right was named Sonnie (ah sound). Mom would always ask us who we wanted to invite over and we'd say Sonnie and once we wanted the bad boy whose name I have forgotten. I think that's him in the middle, the guy that looks like a bad boy.


Here's the back of the photo with us in woodshop in kindergarten. It has the date.


HERE'S JEFF'S THIRD GRADE CLASS (BELOW)
JEFF WRITES: Left to right, row by row: Mrs. Kramer, Miss Lux,  Andy, forgotten, forgotten, Penny, Stuart, Valerie, Steve, tip of my tongue, tip of my tongue, Me, Janice, Robert ("Nabor" or "Woody") Woodward, tip of my tongue, Richie, Gwen, Gary (Fields), Catherine (Hayden), Talitha Arnold, Eugene, Don Hull, tip of my tongue, and Paul MacGregor.



Mrs. Reading, I believe



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HERE'S MY THIRD GRADE CLASS BUT I WAS SICK AND NOT IN THE PHOTO! I LOVED THIS CLASS WITH MRS. ROGERS!
(BELOW)
Third Grade Tempe Arizona 1959


HERE'S WHAT I WROTE ABOUT THIS CLASS  HERE.

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Mrs. Rogers 1959 Broadmor School

HERE'S MY CLASS WITH MR. KICK (BELOW)
1960

HERE'S WHAT I WROTE ABOUT THIS CLASS. GO TO CHAPTER 3  HERE.

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HERE'S STEVE'S FIFTH GRADE CLASS (BELOW)






MY FIFTH GRADE CLASS WITH MR. JOE SPRACALE (BELOW)

The guy next to Sammy Fees is Robert Farrell I believe. The guy with no name next to Marsha Sowell I believe was from Panama and his father gave up a good job as a tugboat captain to come to Arizona.
The other guy next to Ron Green is Ray Likesy.


Here's Joe Spracale in a photo I took as a youngster. I think I waited decades to develop the film. Another follows....

Seems like only yesterday


MRS. WELLS' SIXTH GRADE CLASS 1963 (BELOW)

You see me second from the right, bottom row grinning between my two bestest pals. Unfortunately, they were LDS and after sixth grade I don't think they were allowed to associate with non LDS after that year. At least that is how I came to understand what happened. As I recall, neither one of them ever as much as spoke to me again. That's religion for you as usual contributing to the greater worst. But it wasn't much of an issue with me because luckily, I had other friends. Notice that I'm wearing a white T-shirt under my shirt as the other guy on my right is. Well, they both were. I asked my mom if I could have a white T-shirt to wear and she said, "Oh, that's a Mormon thing." She didn't care if I wore it. I was trying to be like the other fellers.

MRS. LAIRD'S SEVENTH GRADE CLASS (BELOW)




Here's EIGHTH GRADE WITH MR. STORTZ (BELOW)





Here's the program where I recited the poem, "The Turtle" and Steve sang our favorite "The Wayward Wind."

I kept making the same mistake saying "fly" instead of "mosquito." I made it on stage but caught myself and said, "...a fly ---- I mean a MOSQUITO!" The audience roared with laughter. I was hooked. From then on I knew the stand-up gig was for me!

Oh, my gosh what a religious program. What did my atheist parents think of that? I don't remember a bit of the religious stuff.




Here's the cover that I remember with the woodpecker and all.





Bobby, Steve, Kurt

Jeff, Steve, Tom






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1967 I think. I have only a bit part, but I was the first one seen when the curtain opened because the play began with a couple of us "braves" murdering a settler and I got to knife him when he was down and then someone shot us all or something. I was TERRIFED when I saw the curtain open and the packed house. I remember my heart pounding so loud I could hear it.




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Below you see me, No. 226, in the wrestling team at Tempe High School my sophomore year.


BELOW IS A CLASS BEFORE WE CAME TO ARIZONA

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Graham's class


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Sue Niece Tempe High School 1967

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