My Life with Jeanne

Jeanne and I met in the 7th grade, but she either didn't like me, or she was afraid of me because she thought that I was so smart! We did not become friends until the 10th grade. We used to play football with a paper football in the shape of a triange. The "goal posts" were our index fingers touching each other and our thumbs as the ends of the goal posts. We scored a "touchdown" if any edge of our paper football extended over the end of the table without the football's falling off the edge of the table. We sat on opposite sides of the table, and we had 3 "kicks" in which to move our football from our side of the table to our opponent's end of the table. I used to get my football to within 6 to eight inches of Jeanne's side of the cafeteria table, and then I would "kick" the football between her two index fingers and her two thumbs! I usually won, by using this tactic. We lost touch with each other after the 10th grade, when I transferred from Thomas Jefferson High School and moved across town and attended Thomas A. Edison High School. We met again in September of 1965, when Jeanne enrolled at San Antonio College from Thomas Jefferson, and I enrolled at San Antonio College from Thomas A. Edison. By this time she was seriously dating a neighbor boy who was a Junior Classman at St. Mary's University. I tried for 2 full years to get her to date me, but she was loyal to Rick, whom she married in 1970, after she graduated from San Antonio College in May of 1967 and then graduated from St. Joseph's (Catholic) Nursing School in Ft. Worth in May of 1969. After graduating from San Antonio College, I moved to Austin, Texas to attend the Uninversity of Texas, from which I graduated in May of 1970. I stayed in Austin untin 1975, when I transferred from a Finance Company in Austin to another branch of the Finance Company in Seguin, Texas. I eventually ended up in San Antonio, then in San Angelo. I moved to several town before moving to Marion where I received her leter.