During our first day or two of high school I was standing in the back of the class because there weren’t enough seats for everyone. This was during orientation.

Mary came in during this time and was writing on the blackboard for some reason. The first time I saw for I knew I was in love! Right there I knew it!

We started dating during our freshman year. We went to the Christmas dance, and if it were a dance, and then we broke up until we were seniors. Then, we got back together and have been together since.

After I saw Mary for the first time I went home and told my mother and I had met the woman I was going to marry.

She asked me: “how can you tell that?”

I said: “I know; I just know. I’ve met her!”

It turns out I was right and I had a habit of doing that.

So we were married January 3, 1959 in her town of Ambridge. I went on to Germany about three weeks later, and she joined me about three months after that. For the first three or four years I was in the service, Mary was taking training as a nurse.