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| Fall | 1968 | |||||||
Mom arrived in Borrego and procured a house off of Rango Way:
 Elsa starting the unload process  | Started high school in Borrego, as a sophomore.
  Xmas card mom made for this year |
 Julie poses during a visit from dad & Leny  Mom bought us this sandbuggy for Xmas! | ||||||
| Summer | 1968 | |||||||
| Spent summer in Little Rock AR in hastily built replacement to log cabin that burnt down. Jef remembers going down to Lake Ouchita and aquaplaning on Don's power boat. Also, went to Dogpatch USA amusement park opened this year in the Ozarks. Although this park was a commercial success at first, investors expanded too rapidly and this park was closed in 1993 after a succession of owners. The unused park is still there and has been subjected to extensive vandalism since.  On a trail ride at Dogpatch USA - Ruth and Elsa(probably) are 2 rightmost riders - photo by Jef  Elsa? in Dogpatch  Went with Ruth and Don to Borrego near the end of this year. Here is a stable mom was interested in keeping Julie and Elsa's horses, should she decide to move there Jef remembers he was allowed to drive Don's Cadillac on BS Road on a night with absolutely no traffic. He also remembers going on a morning walk with Don and mom while staying at the Whispering Sands Motel.  Bob took son Jef & Leny on a tour of the southwest this summer  Jef & Leny at 4 Corners
|   Jef by cave dwellings, maybe Walnut Creek  Sunset Crater  Leny & Jef at Mesa Verde  Jef in Houston (I think)   Elsa about this time, in Arkansas
|  Mom in Jacksonville this year Mom went on trip with Don & Rob to a racetrack. Rob wanted to use it for rock concerts:  Mom is in yellow   Don at left  I guess this is the name of the racetrack  Good pic of mom!  Racetrack from the air - mom probably flew there - she had a plane for a while  Rob, Debby, ? & Don | ||||||
| Jun | 1968 | |||||||
 Graduated from Junior High in a class of about 500. Click on picture above, if you can't find me.  My skool pic this year | ||||||||
| Winter/Spring semester | 1968 | |||||||
 Mom made Jef this desk using bats obtained as promotions by going to certain baseball games as parts of the desk (legs, drawer handles)  Meanwhile this winter in Borrego at the high school, this pic shows they got 5" of snow! L to R: Joey Rice, Rich Palasik, Chuck Blandy, ? April
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Learned from Mr. Roberts that a normal walking pace is 4 mph (and so, most people don't walk normally). We learned how to speed walk this year. Note that I only rated a C in Mr. Goulet's class. That was hard to get, actually. Did a lot of neat stuff in drafting, including making some blueprints. About this time - early winter, dad & Leny took Sam & Jef up to Mt. Pinos to play in the snow.  February, took Jef & Sam & Leny up to play in the snow at Mt. Pinos  Jef & Sam sledding down a hill on Mt. Pinos June
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 Little Rock cabin burned down this winter | ||||||
| 1968 Echoes YEARBOOK Thomas Starr King Junior High School, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||
 Yearbook cover
 Faculty The ones that are circled I'm sure were some of my teachers. Specialties:
 Some of student body
My fellow nerd friends included Mike Jordan - a small guy who always carried a briefcase, Steve Klein, and Bill Weisman, who sometimes referred to me as Jefrius Johnsonius - a new species, obviously not human:
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