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World Events:

1960
Sino-Soviet split, U-2 Downed, Polaris Missile Fired, USS Enterprise Launched

1961
Kennedy Inaugurated, US Commitment to Vietnam, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Peace Corps, Kennedy-Krushchev at Summit, Berlin Crisis

1962
Border War between China and India. Algeria Independent, US Commits to Vietnam, Prayer Unconstitutional in Schools, Environment Movement, First Black at University of Mississippi, American in Space, Cuban Missile Crisis, Telstar Broadcast

1963
Feminine Mystique, U of Alabama Integrated, Kennedy visits Berlin, Kennedy Assassinated, Vaccine for Measles

1964
China Explodes A Bomb, Beatles in America, Civil Right Act of 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Nobel Prize, Reports on Smoking, IBM- System 360 

1965
War Escalates in Vietnam, War on Poverty, Violence in Selma, Voting Rights Act, Riots in Watts, US Troops in Dominican Republic, First Commercial Satellite

1966
Nigerian Civil War, Miranda Decision, National Organization of Women, Direct Dial Phones,

1967
Six Day War, Che Guevera Killed, The South African surgeon Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant, American surgeon Rene Favalero conducted the first heart bypass operation.

1968 Czechoslovakia Revolt, Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated, Robert Kennedy killed, Nixon wins election,

1969 Violence in N. Ireland, Woodstock, War Between Honduras and El Salvador, Apollo 11, First 747 Flight, Concorde Airborne

Events in our lives:

1960 Terry Halliday is assigned to an Air Force base at King Salmon, Alaska for one year.

1960 Jan. New Years Day finds Barbara with a major hangover and Glenn gets to watch our two and Roger and Bonnie's four children all by himself.

1960 June We visit Disneyland.

1960 Summer We make a camping trip to Oregon via the coast.

1960 Sept. Karen starts first grade at Anatola Elementary School.

1960 Sept. 30 Al Kemmerich retired from the Fish & Wildlife Service. He was immediately appointed temporary Executive Director of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission, an Interstate Commission, comprising the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. After two years a permanent director was hired and Al left the position, but remained a consultatant to the PMFC until 1975.

1960 Oct. 31 Barbara's grandfather, Charles von Pressentin dies in Sedro-Woolley, WA. of intestinal blockage.

1960 November Kemmerichs come down and we accompany them to Big Bear Lake, where Al K. attends a conference.

1960 Christmas Hallidays come down for Christmas from South San Francisco.

1961 Terry Halliday is sent to Sandy Hook, New Jersey at a Nike missile base.

1961 Jan. Barbara starts back to college at "San Fernando Valley State College" at Northridge (later called California State College at Northridge). She takes about six credits each semester. She is heading for an elementary education degree.

1961 Spring We spend Easter with Hallidays in South San Francisco.

1961 Summer We visit Sutters Fort in Sacramento, enroute to camping at Lake Tahoe and Yosemite.

1962 Jan. Barbara organizes a Blue Bird (Campfire Girls) group to meet a "Childhood Education" course requirement. Karen is immediately recruited. The group is a success and continues long after Barbara's course ends. Garry Brown is my co-leader of the Blue Birds.

1962 August Terry Halliday is discharged from the US Air Force. Drives back to San Francisco. Lives in the Bay Area with his brother, Leslie.

1962 Sept. We stop at Hallidays enroute to Yosemite for camping. While playing tennis, Mark suffers sunstroke, falls down, hitting his face and lacerating his mouth (filled with braces). We go camping anyway, trying not to look like child abusers. We stay up in Tuolumne Meadows (freezing at night) and in Wawona (lovely temperatures day and night).

1962 Oct. 16 The Cuban Missile Crisis starts. It ends 12 days later.

1962 Oct. 22 President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island. We lay in a supply of emergency liquid diet drinks and spend many months working off our cache.

1962 Fall We visit Knotts Berry Farm.

1962 Christmas Karen gets those new dolls "Barbie and Ken."

CHECK WHEN HALLIDAYS WENT TO PAKISTAN (Terry thinks 1962)

1963 Spring Glenn gets a 1961 Mercedes 190 SL sports car. Glenn is assigned temporarily (about 3 months) at "Computer Sciences" in Santa Monica

1963 Mar. 28 Karen breaks her little finger (right hand) during a game of "catch" with Mark. Mark agrees to be her "right hand" during the four weeks it takes her finger to heal.

1963 April 6 Karen has her tonsils removed by our family doctor at a Van Nuys hospital. The anesthesiologist is our former neighbor, Dr. Murray.
Bonnie Hiatt Halliday is having a difficult fifth pregnancy; keeps going into labor too early. Is ordered to total bedrest; her mother, Helen Hiatt, comes to care for her family. Later, Bonnie delivers a full-term baby, but the baby is dead at birth, due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around the baby's neck.

1963 June We attend Dee Dee (Dorothy) Roberts' wedding to Dale.

1963 July Just Glenn and Barbara drive to Vegas in the Mercedes.

1963 Sept. We camp at Wawona, in Yosemite Nat. Park. Karen gets a full-size Schwinn bicycle for her ninth birthday.

1963 Fall Terry Halliday visited us after his discharge from the Air Force where he served at King Salmon, Alaska. We camped at Joshua Tree St. Park with the Waldrons. We were very grateful for Bill Waldron's brandy on the cold desert nights.

1963 Dec. Kemmerichs start a winter sun break tradition. They stay in their "Silver Streak" trailer near us in Van Nuys until January, then head for Cathedral City and a mobile home park.

1964 Glenn and Barbara enjoy playing golf on weekends occasionally with UNIVAC friends. Barbara also golfs during the week with Eleanor Roberts (neighbor) or Maria McGann (friend from college).

1964 Jan. We visit Kemmerichs near San Diego. We drive to Ensenada for the day. We attend a "Cinerama" movie in Hollywood. Glenn, Barbara and Mark attended an orientation meeting at Mulholland Jr. High School.

1964 Feb. 4 Mark started Mulholland Jr. High School.

1964 May We realize we cannot afford a Mercedes with twin carburetors and two children. It is easier to find a new owner for the Mercedes. We trade in the 3-year old 190 SL and walk out of the Oldsmobile dealership with a brand new, 4-door Olds with air conditioning! The two happiest days of our lives? The day we bought the 190 SL and the day we sold the 190 SL.

1964 Aug. 24 to Sept. 02: We take the air conditioned Olds on a trip to Utah, camping at Zion and Bryce Nat. Parks, then on to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

[Postcard from Mark and Karen]
Postmark:none, probably enclosed in letter, August 24 to Sept. 2, 1964
Picture: Great White Throne, Zion Nat’l Park
To: Mr. & Mrs. I.A. Halliday, no address
Message: HI:
The places around here sure are pretty and the walls are steep. Tomorrow we are going to the Grand Canyon.
Mark
Hi:
At Zion we camped under the Great White Throne. We went on a couple good hikes there and here in Bryce. We leave for the Grand Canyon tomorrow. Love, Karen

1964 Fall Kemmerichs sell their Lake Road home in Milwaukie, and live full-time in their 28-foot Silver Streak travel trailer, towed by a Pontiac station wagon. By the end of 1965, they had been in all contiguous 48 states, all the 10 Canadian provinces, both Canadian territories and made three trips to Alaska. They then bought a retirement home in Woodburn, OR.

1964 Dec.?? (Right date?) Kemmerichs come with their trailer and stay through Christmas. Barbara, Mark and Karen accompany Kemmerichs to Las Vegas. Glenn comes over by train later. We celebrate New Years Eve on Fremont Street. We all take the train back to Los Angeles on New Years Day. We are probably the only people on the train who are not hung over.

1965 Mark is busy with Boy Scouts, going on campouts, etc. Karen is busy with Camp Fire girls, weekly meetings, outings, etc. Karen is taking dance lessons. Barbara keeps busy going to Boy Scout Mothers meetings and leading Camp Fire Girls, while still attending college part time. Glenn keeps busy working, and we both are in a bowling league located near the UNIVAC office downtown.

1965 Jan. Kemmerichs to Palm Springs. They park their trailer at the Travel Lodge Trailer Park, 39-360 Peterson Rd, Cathedral City, CA, Space 85.
Noel is living at 16674 N.E. Hassalo, Portland, OR

1965 Feb. We visit Kemmerichs in Palm Springs, stay at a Travelodge for $14.55 per night. They soon head out on a cross-country trip.
Pauline Kemmerich receives several copies of the von Pressentin family crest from the German v.Pressentin historian, Klaus Gerd v.Pressentin.

1965 Mar. 3: While going to a children's' concert in Los Angeles, Barbara neglects to remove her thumb when slamming the car door shut. Mark says: "Oh Shit! Oh Shit" and Barbara is more concerned about his language than her throbbing thumb.

1965 Mar. 17 We make earnest money offer on a house at 17122 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, as an investment. " Sherman Way is destined to be the Wilshire Boulevard of the Valley."

1965 April Kemmerichs are in St. Augustine, Florida and heading on north to Williamsburg, etc.

1965 April 30 Escrow closes on Sherman Way house.

1965 May First of several tenants move into Sherman Way house. Kemmerichs moving north, past Lancaster, PA and on to Boston, and Vermont.

1965 June Kemmerichs reach Bar Harbor, Maine. Join their friends, the Barnabys, there. Stay there for the rest of June. We start painting the exterior of our house. Karen? Mark? start music lessons. We get prices on pianos. Don't buy one though.

1965 Aug. Karen goes to Camp Fire Girls camp for a week. Barbara rides up on the bus as a chaperone, returns with departing girls. They sing all the way up, and all the way back. Barbara has a splitting headache when leaving the bus at the I.Magnin parking lot in Beverly Hills on the return.

Mark goes to Boy Scout camp--probably water skills camp above Bakersfield, CA in the Sierras.

1965 Sept. 1: Barbara, Karen and Mark go to Newport Dunes for Campfire Girls campout. Barbara and other CF leader rent sailboat and almost reach the Pacific Ocean. They are pushed back by Mark and other older girls. The shame of it!

1965 Oct. Halloween party at our house for Karen and her friends.

1965 Dec. Kemmerichs back in Palm Springs, we go see them on Dec. 20. Take tram ride.

1966 Jan. Barbara started practice teaching. Hated it. Quit. Tried working as a playground supervisor, part time.

1966 Feb. 5 Terry Halliday and Theresa married in San Jose. We attended.

1966 Spring Science Fair at Mulholland Jr. Hi. Mark has "shock tube" entry. The whole family is involved in last-minute preparations for the Fair--none of us are speaking to the others.

1966 March We buy a VW Beetle. Karen objected to such a tiny, ugly car; we assure her it will only be used by Glenn to commute to his office on Wilshire Blvd. We lied. We take the "Bug" almost everywhere.

1966 Mar. 12 To Palm Springs, see Kemmerichs, try out Glenn's new camera on desert wildflowers.

1966 Mar. 29 Kemmerichs come up from Palm Springs, stay two weeks in nearby trailer park.

1966 Mar. 15 We get our first wildflower book from library. What were those desert flowers????

1966 Mar. 30 We pay deposit on Yosemite High Country hike in August.

1966 Mar. 22 Noma and Irl Halliday back in South San Francisco-returning from Pakistan via Europe.

1966 Mar. 27 Went on our first official wild flower photography trip--to Tapia Park.

1966 Mar. 30 Hallidays come down to see us. Kemmerichs, Roger & Bonnie & family, Irl & Noma, and our family all had a picnic at the William S. Hart Ranch in Newhall.

1966 April We see the first photos from the far side of the moon, taken by a Russian unmanned spacecraft, "Luna 10." Went to Antelope Valley for a wildflower tour. Glenn ordered "extension tubes" for his camera to take close-up photos of wildflowers.

1966 April 16 Karen's Campfire Girls group got a free plane ride to San Diego.

1966 April 25&26 Glenn to UNIVAC home office, Philadelphia and back.

1966 May 6 Mark off to "Camporee" after delivering his science project (which took second place in Mulholland Jr. Hi. Science Fair) Mark now in the lawn mowing business in the neighborhood.

1966 May 20 All- Los Angeles junior high school Science Fair, at LA Coliseum. Mark's shock tube gets second place.

1966 Summer Both Mark and Karen taking music lessons. Mark: Clarinet. Karen: guitar? Bill Paull taking care of pool servicing at Sherman Way house.

1966 July Karen off to Campfire Camp for a week, then to Bezemers for a week. Mark working on ham radio at Birmingham Science Center.

1966 July Glenn offered transfer to UNIVAC home office, Blue Bell, PA Glenn back to Philadelphia UNIVAC home office for several days.

1966 July 16 To Sequoia Nat. Park for weekend. Barbara attending Tupperware parties.

1966 Aug. 05 to 10 Glenn and Barbara flew to Philadelphia --found house in Doylestown, PA The Aldea Ave. house appraised: $27,500 Arranged with Bill Paull to look after Sherman Way house as well as do pool.

1966 Aug. 11 to 21 Went to Yosemite Nat. Park, and did High Country hiking trip, staying at tent camps from Glen Aulin, to May Lake, to Sunrise Meadows, to Merced Lake, to Vogelsang and return to Tuolumne Meadows where the VW Bug was patiently waiting for us.

1966 August Had good-bye parties, saw Bezemers, many last doctor appointments, getting records, etc. Arranged for cat (Jonathan) to travel on plane with us to Philadelphia. EVERYTHING, including our VW Beetle and Oldsmobile sedan went to Doylestown in the moving van.

1966 Sept. 01 We and the cat all flew to Philadelphia. "Jonathan" refused to look at us when we picked him up at the baggage counter in Philadelphia. Stayed in a motel in Doylestown until house sale closed on Sept. 9.

1966 Sept. 09 Moved into house at 24 Scott Rd, Doylestown, in "Clemens Farm" subdivision. Some of our neighbors: next door, Shirley and Gordon Davis, Art and JeanWetzel, across street: Ray and Dot Mills (local car dealer) and Grover and Betty Kilmer. Another UNIVAC family nearby--Paul & Joan Hermsen, Linda, Diane and Sue. Another Halliday family (Dick and Dot) just up the street! Beyond them, the Spitzer family. Next door to Hermsens--another couple from the West, Ed & Joyce Whyte from Boise, ID. Ed & Helen Blain (Sports writer at Doylestown paper) across road to the east. Mark and Karen enroll in school. Mark at Central Bucks High School. Karen at Lenape Junior High School. Mark joins the band.

1966 Sept. 24 To Washington, D.C. for the weekend. Visited Glenn's former boss at UNIVAC in Los Angeles, Bill & Claudine Waldron.

1966 Sept. 30 Went apple picking with neighbor Dot Spitzer--wonderful apples! Winesaps, etc.

1966 Oct. Barbara joined a ladies' morning bowling team.

1966 Oct. 19 Claudine Waldron gives Barbara a personal tour of New York City. Claudine buys some more of her family silver pattern at Tiffany's. Wow! Barbara is impressed. Also see Macy's and Lord & Taylor. (Waldrons moved from D.C. to Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia about now.)
Glenn starts pattern of business trips to Washington, D.C., Huntsville, Alabama (only in summer) and Minneapolis (only in winter). Karen starts riding lessons at Bonny Brook Farm. Karen Lazarr shared rides to Bonny Brook. Karen makes good friend in Donna Doan.
Mark participates in ham radio club at Central Bucks High School. He also joins the Boy Scouts, Post 24 in Doylestown. Mark's friends: Greg Senft, Bill Neis.

1966 November Barbara goes into Philadelphia by train once in awhile with other women. Barbara joins a group of women who "pattern" a little boy, named "Johnny" Wagner who has severe handicaps. Philadelphia doctors have a new therapy involving "patterning" and guiding child in crawling motions.

1966 November Al and Pauline Kemmerich move into their home at 1323 Hampton Way, Woodburn, OR 97071. They are in a senior retirement community called "Senior Estates." Their "estate" is a two bedroom, 1 1/2 bath home.

1966 November 27 [Postcard to Irl and Noma Halliday]
Postmark: New York City , NY , Nov. 27, 1966
Picture: Statue of Liberty Nat. Monument
To: Mr. & Mrs. Irl Halliday, 1911 Acorn Lane, Redding, CA 96001
Message: Hi –We’re sightseeing things we never expected to see. Having good time. One day in N.Y. Will see U.N. and Metropolitan Museum. Glenn, Barbara, Mark, Karen (all signed)

1966 Dec. UNIVAC holds open house for employee's families in Blue Bell. Photo of our family appears in the Doylestown newspaper. We are briefly celebrities.

We go in to New York City, visit the Statue of Liberty, Museum of Natural History.

1966 Dec. 13 It snows! And then, it snows again, and again. Christmas Eve it snows so much we were snowed in on Christmas Day. Mark and Karen learn how to drive a snow shovel. Mark & Karen get a toboggan for Christmas and have plenty of snow to slide on. They build a "jump" on the road above our house and entice Barbara to go over it with them. Bad idea!
Karen gets shiny black leather riding boots for Christmas and a weekly riding lesson at "Bonny Brook Farm" near Doylestown.

1966 Dec. 28 Irl retired from Guy F. Atkinson Co. and was given a retirement party in South San Francisco. The next day the movers picked up their belongings and moved them to their new home in Redding, CA at: 1911 Acorn Lane, Redding , California 96001. Leslie moved to a apartment in South San Francisco.

1967 Jan. Renters come and go at the Sherman Way house in Van Nuys. We learn to dread phone calls after 11 p.m. as they are usually from Bill Paull with a new problem related to that property.

1967 Jan. 28 Orthodontist, Dr. Pearson, removed Mark's braces. Glenn and Barb bowl with couples group in evening.

1967 Jan. 30 Jonathan died. Didn't come in when called in the evening. Found him near the woods in the morning. Suspect dogs chased him, and his heart gave out. Glenn buried him in the woods.

1967 Feb. 11 Got a new cat at the SPCA--named him "Imp." Barb toured " Winterthur " DuPont mansion in Delaware with Claudine Waldron. Water in the basement!!

1967 Mar. 28 Barb started a plant identification class at Washington Crossing St. Park which has a state wildflower display garden.

1967 Easter Went to Washington, D.C. over Easter 3-day weekend. Visited Smithsonian Museum and other points of interest.

1967 April 9 We bought a travel trailer for $525.

1967 April 13 Barb started part-time job at Otto Rank Society office in Doylestown. Miss Faatz and Miss Robinson started Society after their retirement as social workers.

1967 April 29 Trailer delivered. We had trailer hitch put on car.

1967 May Visited Bill & Claudine Waldron at their Cherry Valley, NY home. Saw Cooperstown. Drove through snowstorm enroute--wiper on VW gave out--did wiping "by hand" until we got to Wilkes-Barre.

1967 May 27 Took the trailer on a trip to Gettysburg.

1967 June 02 Mark attended Freshman Dance at Central Bucks H.S.

1967 June 03 Glenn and Barbara take the VW into Philadelphia to go furniture-shopping. Barbara develops an excruciating pain in her abdomen. We go home, and see the on-call Dr. who says "You have serious problems, Mrs. Halliday." "Go home, rest and see Dr. Gribb, the local gynecologist on Monday."

1967 June 04 Barbara's uncle, Charles ("Chuck") Pressentin dies in Sedro-Woolley, WA.

1967 June 05 The Israel-Egypt Six-Day War starts, and Barbara sees Dr. Gribb, who says "Go straight to the Doylestown hospital." She spends a week there, getting large doses of antibiotics to alleviate some of the peritonitis in her abdomen before Dr. Gribb operated and removed a ruptured ovarian cyst, and her uterus, leaving one ovary still working. Dr. Gribb very seriously warned Barbara that this meant she could have no more children. Barbara had difficulty keeping a straight face. Barbara had a slow recovery from the hysterectomy--didn't go back to work at Otto Rank until August.
Glenn buys a window air conditioner and installs it in our master bedroom to keep Barbara comfy while she recuperates and can't go up or down stairs. The bedroom becomes the most popular room in the house during the hot and humid Pennsylvania summers.

1967 July Mark busy with rehearsals for the "summer band." One or both children apparently were in summer school. Karen takes tennis lessons all summer.

1967 July Al & Pauline Kemmerich are on a cross-country trip with their trailer. In Canadian Rockies.

1967 August 7 Karen tries to keep a baby squirrel alive, feeding it with a doll's baby bottle. "Watcha" survives a few days only. Karen keeps careful notes on the baby squirrel's condition (budding interest in veterinary medicine??)

1967 August Kemmerichs in Saskatchewan, then Winnipeg, heading on east in Canada.

1967 Aug. 09 Barbara returns to her part-time job at Otto Rank Association.
We attend some events at the Doylestown Country Club which we joined earlier. We get little chance to use the country club's swimming pool, as severe lightning storms seem to arrive every afternoon.
Glenn sent to Huntsville, Alabama. Comes home with badly-scarred legs from a chigger attack.

1967 Aug. 19 to 25 We hitched up our little travel trailer and headed for the Adirondacks in upper NY state. Camped at Limekiln Lake near "Old Forge" and "Inlet." Went on to Lake Champlain and visited western Vermont (saw marble quarries in Vermont ).
[Postcard to Irl & Noma Halliday]
Postmark: Aug. 24, 1967
Picture: Bald Mountain, Old Forge, New York
To: Mr. & Mrs. Irl Halliday, 1911 Acorn Lane, Redding, CA 96001
Message: Dear Mom and Dad,
We arrived here Tuesday on a very rainy day—sure were glad to have the trailer but has been sunny ever since. Beautiful lakes and woods. The kids have been out rowing, hiking and horseback riding. We’ve enjoyed picking wild berries here too—raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. I’m taking it easy—Glenn and I brought chaise lounges to relax in—you can see we’re “roughing it.” Bye now, love, Barbara and all

1967 Sept. Karen brings home blue ribbons from Bonny Brook horse shows. Mark looks spiffy in his band uniform. Karen joins the group "patterning" little Johnny Wagner.

1967 Sept. Kemmerich's still moving east, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.

1967 Sept. 19 Barbara's grandmother, Jessie Taylor von Pressentin dies in Sedro-Woolley, WA.

1967 Oct. Bucks County is beautiful in the fall--long season of golden leaves.

1967 Oct. 5 Noma & Irl Halliday and Al & Pauline Kemmerich all come to visit. We show them Valley Forge.

1967 Oct. 11 Kemmerichs leave for "Expo 67" in Montreal, Canada.

1967 Oct. 29 We join the Doylestown Methodist church. Mark is in their Boy Scout troop; Barbara joins the women's "Friendly Guild" group.

1967 Dec. Mark working with Barb at Otto Rank during Christmas vacation. Mailing latest issue of the ORA journal.

1968 Jan. Glenn busy with business travel: to Maryland, Salt Lake City, Huntsville, Alabama.
Barbara becomes a "friendly visitor" at the Bucks County nursing home, visiting a lady with Parkinson's Disease. Formerly the nursing home was the County Poor House, where James Michener and his adoptive mother sometimes lived.

1968 Feb. Kemmerichs park their trailer at the Travelodge Park in Cathedral City, CA.

1968 Mar. Bought a used Dodge sedan. Sold the Olds, put trailer hitch on the Dodge. We are now following the local custom of getting our pretzels delivered at the house by the " Pretzel Man. " $2.25 for a large can of pretzels.

1968 Mar. 23 Took trailer out of the storage we were renting. It now lives on our lawn near the driveway. Glenn and Barbara discover the " Pine Barrens " in New Jersey and its wildflowers.

1968 April 10 Left for trip to Shenandoah Nat. Park over spring break. Visited Monticello, Luray Caverns and Skyline Drive --the redbud and dogwood trees were glorious in the mountains.

1968 April 23 Mark attends a Boy Scout meeting to start planning for the summer trip to the Philmont B.S. ranch in New Mexico. Karen now has steady jobs babysitting for various neighbors.

1968 May Karen joins 4-H.

1968 June Glenn still traveling--to Bedford, Mass. Karen travels to Niagara Falls with her friend Donna Doan and Donna's family.
Karen chooses raising lab rabbits for her 4-H project. We get two "virgin" does and a buck and obtain a raised hutch for them.

1968 July 6 Mark leaves for Philmont Ranch in New Mexico with a busload of other Scouts from various troops in the general area.
[Postcard from Mark to Irl & Noma Halliday]
Postmark: Ft. Leonard Wood, MO July 19, 1968
Picture: Gateway Arch at Sunset, St. Louis, Mo
To: Mr. & Mrs. Irl Halliday, 1911 Acorn Lane, Redding, CA 96001
Message: Hello—Having lots of fun here. Hope you are feeling OK now Grampa. We passed through this arch in St. Louis today. Now at Ft. Leonard Wood Army Base, Missouri . Will be in N.M. on Wednesday. Love Mark.

1968 Summer Glenn, Barb, Karen and Donna Doan take the trailer to the "coal country" visiting "Jim Thorpe" and camping at Hickory Run St. Park. They are all excited in Jim Thorpe because the movie "The Molly Malones" is being filmed there. Karen goes to the Poconos with the Doans.

1968 July 27 Mark gets back from New Mexico. Tells us that the bus-full of Scouts made a Howard Johnson's restaurant regret their "all you can eat" offer!! Mark has lots of exciting adventures to relate and was able to earn almost enough badges to make Eagle Scout while at Philmont.
Karen's rabbits make little bunnies. Barbara's trips to the rabbit food store get more and more frequent as the bunnies eat their way to the weight required before the nearby drug labs will buy them.

1968 Aug. 8 Anneke Bezemer comes from Southern California to visit and accompany us to the Montreal Expo 67--still going in its second year. We take the trailer and our tent. Our route takes us via Lake Ontario, the Thousand Islands, and we stay at a trailer park outside of Montreal. After 2-3 days at the Expo, we go to Lake Champlain, and finally to the Adirondacks where we camp once again in the "Chain O' Lakes" area. Mark, Karen and Anneke do a lot of canoeing.

1968 Aug. 29 The bunnies got big enough, Karen entered them in the county fair and a friend took them to the fair while we were in Canada. The horrified judges discovered the bunnies had a venereal disease and ordered them off the fairgrounds. The vet shows us how and where the bunnies must be annointed with antibiotic salve to rid them of their disease. This was to be a profit-making project but we are heading into red-ink already.

1968 Sept. 06 Our first color TV is delivered. First thing we watch is the Miss America pageant. The food commercials are amazing in color. We are all drooling over them. Glenn still is traveling--to St. Paul, MN, then to Boston.

1968 Oct. 12 Mark takes his driving test. And passes!

1968 Oct. 17 to 31 Al & Pauline Kemmerich come to see us, in their latest RV--a new trailer. We visit Lancaster, Philadelphia, and all the tourist sites. On Oct. 13, enroute to Doylestown, Kemmerichs stopped in Manistee, Michigan where Pauline's grandfather and great-uncles first settled after coming to the US

1968 Oct. 26 The Otto Rank Assn. has their annual meeting. Lots of eminent psychologists in attendance. Barb very busy--arranging, helping, taking notes (without benefit of shorthand). The weather is cooling down, so of course, Glenn gets sent to St. Paul, MN.
We are addicted to the fresh apple cider at a nearby cider mill.

1968 Nov. 03 Glenn has to go back to Boston area on business, Barb goes along. We see Walden Pond, Lexington (and the Minute Man), Louisa May Alcott's home in Concord. Barb takes the "B&M" commuter train into the city, shops, takes walking tour, buys a GENUINE Boston Bean Pot.
Getting colder, so of course, Glenn goes back to St. Paul, New York and also to Ohio

1968 Dec. Karen is taking guitar lessons. We go to the Mercer Museum for caroling and hot apple cider.

1968 Dec. 27 Glenn's trip to St. Paul interrupted by huge blizzard in Midwest. Plane stops in Ft. Wayne, Glenn's group rents a car, drive to Chicago, can't get flight to MN in time for meetings, give up and fly home.  

1969 Jan. We have a "silver thaw" and Mark is able to skate on our lawn, the road, anywhere he likes! Barbara joins the League of Women Voters and learns all about the local school district.

1969 Feb. Claudine Waldron has recurrence of cancer. Originally, breast cancer while in Los Angeles. Now, bone cancer. In and out of hospital in Bryn Mawr. We visit her frequently. Their oldest son, Will, an Annapolis graduate is now commanding a Chinese "junk" ship in Vietnam, on river patrol.

1969 Mar. Mark busy with "ham" radio. Karen has flourishing baby-sitting business.

1969 April Barbara starts another wildflower class at Washington Crossing St. Park.

1969 April 03 Spring break--our family trip is to Cape Hatteras and Williamsburg.

1969 April 12 Mark goes to Jimmy Hendrix concert at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.

1969 July 19 Karen left for a trip to the West Coast. First stop: Portland & Kemmerichs. They take her up to the Skagit Valley & Sedro-Woolley, to Kemmerich family picnic, Noel & Betty's home. Kemmerichs drive her down to Redding where she stays with Hallidays. Mark and friend Bill Holland are in a car accident at 11:30 p.m. Not hurt.

1969 July 21 While at a stop light in Doylestown, the Dodge is backed into by car in front of Barb.

1969 Aug. 07 Barb has cystoscopy (exam of bladder) at Doylestown Hospital to try to identify cause of her recurring bladder infections.

1969 Aug. 10-24 We vacation at the "Willis Lodges" in Inlet, NY, in Adirondacks. Karen still visiting Kemmerichs and Bezemers in the West, so Bill Neis joins us. Glenn is also Out West, in Pasadena at the Jet Propulsion Lab for a week, then he joins us in the Adirondacks. Bill and Mark try water skiing and sailing. They are much better at both sports than Glenn and Barbara.

1969 Aug. 16 Barbara's aunt, Caroline Pressentin Chatterton dies in Sedro-Woolley, WA from colon cancer.

1969 Aug. 26 Our former neighbors on Aldea Ave., Van Nuys, Eleanor Roberts and her daughter, Dee Dee (now divorced) come to see us. We show them Philadelphia.

1969 Sept. The Central Bucks school district opens its second high school--Central Bucks East in Buckingham. Mark transfers to the new high school as a senior, and Karen enters as a sophomore. After years of driving the kids to Central Bucks West HS and Lenape Jr. Hi. Barbara celebrates the fact that bus service is now provided.

1969 Sept. 06 Glenn leaves for Rome, Italy on Alitalia. To teach a programming class in Rome for 2 weeks. His plane is full of noisy Italians.

1969 Sept. 17 Barbara takes limo to Kennedy Airport, New York City and flies on Alitalia to Rome to meet Glenn. Her plane is almost empty! More crew members than passengers.
After Glenn finishes his teaching, we tour Rome. Then, take Swissair to Zurich. Train to Interlaken, rent a VW bug, and drive to Grindelwald. From Switzerland, we fly to Amsterdam, stay a couple days, see the Rijksmuseum, do the canal tour. Glenn got his first expensive camera "macro" lens at Schipol Airport duty free shop. On to England for a few days, visited the British Museum, saw the Changing of the Guard, and Westminster Abbey. Bought kids items from shops on " Carnaby Street " the fashion center of London in the 1960's. Barb bought a china coffee pot in her "Old England Rose" pattern and carried it on her lap all the way home on the plane.
Both Mark and Karen are now in the high school band.

1969 Oct. 02 Glenn and Barb fly home on Pan American Airways.

1969 Oct. 08 Mark goes before the Boy Scout Eagle Board. Kemmerichs come to visit in a new RV--this time, a pickup with permanently-mounted camper.

1969 Nov. 29 David & Carolie Mullan, and their children, Beth and Mike, come to visit us. They are stationed at Ft. Meade, MD.

1969 Dec. 22 Bought a new Rambler "Hornet" sedan and said "good riddance" to the Dodge. Worst car we ever had!

1969 Dec. 29 Mark took the VW to the Poconos and went skiing. Broke his left leg (badly). He and another ski accident were driven back in a station wagon. His leg was set by Dr. Boland at Doylestown Hospital that evening.