I subscribe
to genealogy.com and entered "5707 Hardy" -- my
childhood address -- in their Exact Name
Search. Lots of things popped up, including
this Eileen Jackson piece from the San Diego
Union, June 12, 1955. It's amazing how much
personal stuff they put in papers back
then. Anyway, it's fun for me to see all
these names. My folks rented their house to Robert
Shaw for the summer, starting in 1953.
The article mentions Shaw’s assistant Thomas Pyle,
who stayed at the home of Page Crouch '60.
Tommy was married in 1954 at our house. It
wrapped around a big patio and I remember the roof
was covered with champagne corks from the
wedding. Another Shaw person, John Wustman,
stayed in the home of Spencer Milne '60, Terry and
Terry Milne '61. The Milne's house was
directly behind ours. The article notes that
my sister Margaret ’59 and I would be visiting our
aunt in Berkeley, where we would be taking lessons
at the Berkeley Tennis Club. The photo below
shows me by the back porch of my aunt and uncle’s
house, decked out in my tennis whites -- Robert Richardson '61
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