Dolores Neuman

This was Miss Gaizband, my 6th fabulous grade teacher in 1967 class photo : )

My Dearest Mommy,
Each year as we get closer to June 5th my heart starts to hurt a little bit more. I know that people say as time goes by it gets easier but I don't that is the right way to put it. Some days go by and my heart is happy thinking about all of the amazing times that we had, all of the adventures we went on as a family, all of the laughs and smiles you, Daddy and I shared. Other times my heart is filled with sadness at all of the things big and not so big things you have...

Was just answering a question as to whom or what made such an impact for the betterment of your life when of course ~ could be no other, Miss Gaizband came to light. She was my sixth grade teacher and took me under her wing. She made me her 'teacher's pet' and I thoroughly enjoyed it! She made me want to go to school and stand up for myself each and every day. She instilled confidence in me. I recall her shiny maroon penny loafers w/ the copper pennies in them along with her monogram DSG...

Dear Louis and Emma,
I am truly sorry to have found out that Dolores is gone. I met Dolores around '74-75 and shared a house with her on Asbury Street (with Charles and Jane) for about a year until I left for the Caribbean in August 1977. She was a wonderful woman and I am sorry not to have contacted her until it was too late, as we had so much fun together in those days. She took lots of great photos of us at Angel Island with Patti Maloney and Sheila Coad (my "ex"), as I recall, and...