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| Fall semester | 1965 | |||||||
| Started going to Thomas Starr King Junior high school in the 7th grade.
As you can see from my grades (see report card), Drafting was my favorite subject.  My skool pic from around this time |
 Midterm Report card for 1st semester of 7th grade Note how bad I was in Boys Glee, where I was one of only 2 altos. |
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| Summer | 1965 | |||||||
| Spent summer in L.A. Mom, Julie, and Elsa moved to Texas.
I think mom may have gone to Japan with Debby & Don L. around this time:  Mom & Debby  Don & Debby  Mom Mom sent quite a few cards and letters. Here's one where she mentions drilling a wildcat oil well:  |
 Julie & Elsa at the typewriter  Leny delivering cake for birthday #12 with guest, Sam  Blowin' out candles  Later that evening, grandpa & grandma join us at Landa St. |
 Dad piddlin' around with a guitar with his latest fad, smokin' ceeegars.  Had to dress up for some occasion this year | ||||||
| Winter/Spring semester | 1965 | |||||||
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January
One of my accomplishments was to lead the A6 6-th graders to a softball victory against the teachers. We lost agains the B6 team, however. | I remember Gary Vlahakis was the best athelete and an A student. Here's a picture of him in Junior High... I found it in the TSK Echoes yearbook, and hadn't known he was going to that school:
 This may be dad & Elsa at Landa Street
| Miss Haase was Jef's 6th grade teacher. She was the one who determined I needed glasses, and that might explain the improvement in grades in the last half semester.  At grandparent's house (Judy and Thor back row), Elsa, Jef, Julie, Leny in front | ||||||
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