AtoZ Letter F~ First Graders Fated Attraction

In Letter E's post, Elementary Education, I shared my very vivid memories of starting First Grade in East Texas and the complete lack of them when we moved to West Texas. Had it not been for my mother's photos taken during the 1950's, I would not have known moving from West to East and visa versa, was a pattern of the early years of my parents marriage.  A pattern that repeated itself many times over the years from that 1954 First Grade move to the 1964 Twelfth Grade move that sets up this story of an Incredible Connection/Fated Attraction discovered 50 years later.

It is a 'Time Travel Puzzle', so stay with me as I put the pieces together as I discovered them.

Fast forward from 1954, 1st grade West Texas to 1964-65, 12th grade West Texas and my graduating class.  At least 12 of the 1st grade classmates in Mrs. Watson's class were in my graduating class, and while I had moved back and away three or four times, they stayed together.  From one move to the next, they didn't remember me nor I them. 

Over the years of Class Reunions and living in our hometown,  I got to know my classmates mostly through my marriage to one of the First Grade Twelve.

Fast Forward to 2014 and planning for the 50th Class Reunion. My job was to put together a Website of Memories, so  I began going through our (his and mine) scrapbooks, photo collections and boxes of memorabilia our 'Saver Mothers' had given us years before.

~From my Senior Year Scrapbook:  Senior Picture and Graduation Program
From my mother's memorbilia box:  West Texas First Grade Report Card-Teacher Mrs. Watson and East Texas First Grade School Picture.
~From his Senior Year Scrapbook:  Senior Picture
From his mother's memorabilia box:  First Grade Class Photo-Teacher Mrs. Watson.

Here's what I discovered when I put our 1st and 12th Grade memorabilia together.

I wish, I wish, I could remember the 4th and 5th Six Weeks of the First Grade!

All I can say is, 'It is First Grade Fate'...Oh, and I believe in Kismet!