This photo was taken about a year after we moved in. Note the small shrubs.  They would grow soon enough.  That's Helen at the front steps, and the two girls in front of the garage.  My car, at the curb, is a Nineteen Fifty Nine Rambler Classic.
                                 

       My brother Bob and I commuted together for ten or eleven years. (By car!)  We would alternate driving, and one or the other would be dropped off and picked up. We were both in construction, so the locations of our jobs changed frequently.  We sent a lot of cars (used) to the junkyard in those ten years.  The reason we had to travel separately is that I had been sent to a job that required a lot of overtime and turned into a steady job. ( The General Motors building, on Fifty Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue.)  I'm getting ahead of myself,............back to my two little girls!

        Virginia started kindergarten in the fall of Nineteen Sixty One.  Colleen entered the same school (Circle Hill School) in Nineteen Sixty Three.  This picture was taken around the time that Virginia started school.

        I know I am getting ahead of things here, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to install the below photo.  It is a recent photo of the girls, and a good place to compare.

        Both girls did very well in school, we were very fortunate. Our street was shaped like a horseshoe
and at one end were the grammar and junior high schools.  At the other end was Commack North high school.  Consequently, our girls were "walkers" for all but the first year or two.

        After high school, Virginia and Colleen in turn, each attended Suffolk Community College.  Upon graduation Virginia went on to Stony Brook University but dropped out after one year.  She then completed a course for Medical Assistant in a in a private school, the name I cannot recall.  Colleen completed three years in S. C. C. and went on to St. Johns University where she graduated with a bachelors degree in Paralegal Studies.  Helen and I are very proud of our girls' accomplishments.

        We are now in the late Seventies, I am still working in the G. M. building, and would be for years to come.  Not that I knew it at that time, the nature of electrical construction was to complete a job and move on.  Helen is constantly kept busy with home decorating, which she loved to do, and still does to this day.  She would take time now and then to write a little poetry. I will try to talk her into letting me publish a sample here.