Thursday, June 5, 2008

Wedding Day


Malcolm & were married in the Los Angeles Temple Oct 8, 1963. I first met Malcolm's parents a couple of days before our wedding. I met all of his family during that week. We had fun after the wedding with a day at Disneyland and Marine World. We stayed in a converted barn at an old cemetery and open houses in Atwater, Sonoma and a reception at home in Fairbanks, Alaska at the Traveler's Inn

Engagement



I met Malcolm Weston at the University of Alaska. We enjoyed each other and have similar interests and goals. We became engaged the spring before graduation. This is our engagment picture. Malcolm is from Sonoma, CA.

Dad & I at University of Alaska Graduation


My graduation from the University of Alaska was my Dad's dream. I received a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics with minors in music and science

Tuesday, May 20, 2008


While attending the University of Alaska I was voted into the court during a dance.

Dog Sled

We spent many hours on a sled with our dog pulling us! Lady was our favorite dog.

Brownies

My sister Valeria and I were in the Brownie scouts for a couple of years and had fun doing projects and going to camp at Harding Lake in the summers.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Hotrods.



One of our favorite pastimes was making hotrods from buggy wheels and old pices of wood. There were more boys in the neighborhood than girls so I loved this activity. The Vandermeer boys and Frankie were in this picture

Old Main


Old Main was the school where I attended Grammar and junior high school. During lunch breaks and recess we all spend our time on figure skates. School was held until it got to 40 below zero. We walked to school across a frozen river. The distance from home to school was 1.7 miles.
There were no buses to take children to school until we entered high school.

Gold Mine


We spend some of our summers at a gold mine of the Davis family in Livengood, Alaska and has some encounters with bears, porcupines, and other animals. We had such a good time and learned the value of hard work.

2nd Grade Class


My second Grade Class. We made a mural on the wall. There were four girls named Patricia in my class. I read the most books in the class and loved school.

Our Early Neighborhood


This is the house I grew up in at 109 Ina Street in Fairbanks, Alaska



This is our first neighborhood in Fairbanks. There were 11 children we played with. This was taken on a warm summer day in July. We all had so much fun on picnics, making toys and organizing parades.

First Bicycle



A shared bicycle with my sister Valerie in 1944 in Salt Lake City.