More information about Edna Robins Winter

I ran across a news clipping about my grandmother Winter:  no indication of date or newspaper.  This is probably from around 1923 as it was before she married my grandfather.  

"we enjoyed a talk by Miss Edna Robins of Des Moines who was spending the holidays with her sisters, Miss Arline [born 1905] and Mrs. Charley Gardner [I think she was Leola E. Robins born 1909] [Charley Gardner is also associated with the historical town no longer existent Prarie Grove:  see my post on that] [a Roswell Gardner is also mentioned].  Miss Edna is a former Groveland [Groveland was a town in Clarke County, no longer exists] school girl and later one of Clarke county's efficient teachers.  At present she is instructor in the C.C.C.C. in Des Moines [I couldn't find a C.C.C.C., but there was a C.C.C.  Civilian Conservation Corps] and the first of the year is in charge of the shorthand departments, having been promoted just before the Xmas vacation.  We are indeed proud of Miss Robins and predict a bright future for this earnest, industrious young woman who has won out in every undertaking."   

I also ran across her certificate of marriage.

Don Leddy featured in Longfellow School program 1933?

"Longfellow School Has Fine Program:  Arbor Day Affair Much Enjoyed Last Week."  I have a clipping but no information about the date or publication.  Longfellow School is still in Pasadena.  "The children ...all assembled on the north side of the school grounds where David Davis dedicated a eucalyptus tree.  Donald Leddy turned the soil with a shining new spade, after which the classes sang "God Gave to Us the Friendly Tree."  Following this, the 3A children circled the tree, each throwing some soil on the roots.  The program was then concluded by singing the Longfellow School song." 

Photos of Long Beach Earthquake 1933

These photos were probably taken by Jack Leddy as a boy.  I have the negatives too.  I see a lot of photos of the damage online but the photos of what looks like relief work are probably unusual.

Summer 1932 Newport Beach and Balboa Island

Jack Leddy, Don Leddy, Albert, Margaret, James

 

Jack Leddy's Kayak Poem

Jack spent a lot of time when young in Newport harbor and around Balboa Island, Southern California.  I just ran across a poem he wrote that was published in a newspaper (the clipping does not indicate which one).  I never knew my dad wrote any poetry at all.  I do not know when this poem was written or published. 

My Kayak

To paddle a kayak through numberless
yachts
At the rate of, oh a couple of knots
That's fun, don't you think?

Like floating a toothpick through corks
in your tub
We glide past, then slide past, the
new sailing club
To float with the tide.

Puddles dip down, then flash up so
high,
We frighten the sea-gulls upto
the sky --
My kayak and I.

Jack Leddy