Dave Caldwell:  

High School After working hard on my assignments for 2 years, achieving a 4.0 (highest possible) grade point average, & National Honor Society Membership, I took a week off from school, during the school year, to accompany my parents & grandparents on grandad's last deer hunting trip. All my teachers gave me the assignments for that time period so I could stay current with the classes. Upon return to school, my English teacher REJECTED all my efforts to stay current, even though I DID all the work requested & then some. This broke my spirit. We never contested that teacher's action as that was not our family way of living. Therefore, I was very lucky to graduate with a passing grade, even though each semester showed a decrease in my g.p.a.. Life Met me a neat doll at the Oak's Rink in Dec. 1959, married 'er in Aug. '60, had a couple really neat kids, and she's STILL toleratin' me.... after 53 yrs.! Live within 25 miles of Portland, OR, and am now Retired??? Only between "Hey, Honey, would please do .... " A never-ending list, it seems, but I wouldn't trade her for anyone else! Health was ok, then got "Stented".... but memory suffers a bunch & can't multi-task any more. My left ulnar nerve has been relocated from under the elbow... so 2 bottom fingers stop tingling. Been spending lots of time working on our Family Tree' but havin' trouble trying to get progress in the other countries for those names there, & to even get there with the Caldwell ancestors. Military Being unemployed at the time, I joi...Expand for more