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

Margaret Winter's Story Prairie Grove

My great aunt Margaret Winter tells this story of the lost town of Prairie Grove, Iowa here

Malcolm Winter and William Winter

Sept. 1889 James Winter, William Winter, Christine Wright, Mabel Wright

From the web pages of Malcolm Winter  "MABEL W. WRIGHT was born Apr 1, 1888 in California, and died Mar 2, 1964 in Los Angeles, California.She married HUGH VERNON WHITE.He was born Jan 24, 1889 in California, and died Jan 12, 1984 in Claremont, Los Angeles, California.
     
Children of MABEL WRIGHT and HUGH WHITE are:

	i.		MALCOLM5 WHITE, b. 1922, Sacramento, California.
	ii.		NINA JANE WHITE, b. Dec 5, 1919; d. Oct 4, 1986, Riverside, California