Kel, Happy Birthday to you. We overlapped in Korea one semester at SAHS (or in my case, since I was finishing 8th grade in in 1962, I guess it was "SAJrH", but housed in SAHS).

Seeing that you were an officer in the Merchant Marine I have to bore you with a story. The second summer we were there (1963) my father, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Korea as Chief of Party of the Washington University School of Business project there - he needed our house to house visiting faculty over the summer, so he sent us home to the states. He decided it would be a cool idea to send us as passengers on a frieghter and so we traveled 14 days from Inchon to San Francisco on the S.S. Washington Bear of the Bear Steamship Line. The significance was that the mascot of the Washington University athletic teams back in St. Louis was - the Washington Bear.

I had never heard of the Merchant Marine but learned a plenty about such from the cadet (?) from Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy who was on board.

Best regards from St. Louis, MO.

Jim Schindler

Jim, were you in Taegu at Camp Walker? I attended eighth grade there with Dan Edson and then 9th grade at SAHS. RonaldBell@gmail.com

Happy Birthday, Jim. I was a classmate of your sister, Ruth Ann. We overlapped by one and a half years (1960-61).

Posted on: Mar 18, 2020 at 5:00 PM

It's almost a month early, but - Happy Un-belated(?) Birthday come 4/14. I was looking through my 1962 SAHS yearbook and saw the note that you posted. We used cursive handwriting in those days, and wrote around our picture. So - belated Thank You. Jim S.

Posted on: May 29, 2019 at 6:39 AM

Happy Birthday, Steve. Hope it is a good day for you. Hard to believe it's been 59 years since we first met at SAHS. Time flies. Jim

Roland, nice write up; very interesting history. Rare to see a posting from our vintage. We overlapped by 1 1/2 yrs. at SAHS. By my calculation you were a year behind me; my sister Mary Ann would have been in your class year. We arrived January 1960, for me the second semester of 8th grade-which had just moved from the elementary school to the high school building due to overcrowding at the elementary school. We had many classmates who had transferred from Seoul Foreign. Interesting time - two revolutions; visit by President Eisenhower on his farewell tour of the far east, etc.

Best regards; Happy Thanksgiving. Jim