Recollections of School, Baseball, Hockey 1946 - 1956
Recollections: Grade School (1950) Perhaps many of us remember those days of growing -- heady days between the ages of eight to eighteen years of age. Only ten years from the mathematical viewpoint, but to some, it would seem like a lifetime in the doing. Gary was one of those who took changing times and changing thoughts in his stride, or so he thought. At St. Joseph's School, he remembers being one of the little kids, and little was the accurate word to describe his physical size. He recalls weighing 105 pounds, and probably around five feet plus two inches tall when he was fourteen years old, and remained that size until he left the school system at sixteen. Why did that size and shape matter? It didn't affect his participation on the basketball team or the hockey team or the baseball team -- he was good at these sports during grade school at St. Joseph's, it did however present a major challenge when he felt the urge to dance with the girls in his grade nine class at Ri...
