AUTOBIOGRAPHY - 1957 - Star Birthday 7 years old - Muscatine, Iowa

Originating Circle
Family
Mom, Dad, Tim, Paul
Mom's cousin Juanita and Don Gregg, Gretchen
Dad's cousin Marian and Paul Maxwell, Christy and Carol (later Paul & Stevie), Iowa City
Neighborhood Kids:  Add Patsy Bloom
Church:  Miss Springborn, my piano teacher
School Teachers:  Second half of first grade, Miss Huff at Grant School; first half of second grade, Mrs. Kill at Jefferson Elementary
New Neighborhood:  Rae Ann Miller, Ron and Ken Ross, Roger McConaha, Judy and Chris Lee, Brian and Tommy Burke;  old Mrs. Lindley lived right next door on the left; the Burkes lived in a bright blue house on the right.  Another family of girls, can't remember their names right off. 


What Happened:
Spring:  In first grade Miss Huff and Miss Northey decided I should go into the kindergarten class and read to the little children.

On my birthday Grandpa Happy drew my name out of the Star Birthday box on air, and I won a bride doll/ballerina which I still have.  He pronounced my name Michael, but I still got the doll.

During the summer we moved from Barrry Avenue to the first house we owned, on Sycamore Street.