This is a postcard (circa 1950) of the hospital where Richard Lee Gleason was born in 1952.

This is the Dixie Hotel where I stayed in the summer of 1964 for the New York World’s Fair. We stayed on the sixteenth floor of the historic Hotel (now the Hotel Carter) in the theater district of Manhattan at 250 West 43rd Street, just off Times Square. We spent several days there visiting the Fair, the Statue of Liberty and riding the subways.

First Cousins, photo taken in Parma, Ohio about 1985.

Left to Right:

Florence Lines Bucholz, Rick Gleason and Jean Lines Cassidy

This photo is cropped from a photo of Richard with three of his sons taken in March of 2004.

This is a photo of four Avery brother-in-laws.

Taken in the living room at the home of our father-in-law William T. Avery on Christmas day of 1977.

Left to Right: Jim Bonholzer, Rick Gleason, Ed Cavalieri (prior to his marriage to Dianne Avery), and Kenn Fidler.

Notice the new sweaters we all received from Bill and Marge!

Patty and I had been married eight months when this photo was taken.

In about May of 1958, my mother and I moved from Philadelphia to Riverdale, Maryland. This is the apartment building where we lived at 4307 Ravenswood Road at the corner of Lafayette Avenue. My earliest memories occurred in this building and the neighborhood outside. We lived here for the next four years from age five to nine.

In our day a small white picket fence surrounded the property (where the chainlink fence is seen) and also ran along both sides of the entry walk all the way up to the building. The fence was meant to keep us kids off the grass, but it didn’t work!

There are two entries to the building, the one you see and other on the opposite side, just out of camera range.

In November of 1963 I was just weeks away from my eleventh birthday and attending sixth grade at this school Hyattsville Elementary, in Hyattville, Maryland. The open area in this photograph is where we would play during recess.

On Friday, November 22, during our school recess period, I was playing just inside what could be the same chain-link fence and close to the street signs seen in this photo. While there I overheard a woman from a house across the street tell an adult crossing guard (see the crosswalk to the left) that President Kennedy had just been shot.

I was stunned and immediately ran to our teacher telling her what I had heard. She called us all in to the classroom through the white door you can see at the left edge of the brick building.

Soon an announcement was made over the public address system, by the school principal, confirming that the President had been shot. Soon after, we were released to go home. On my way I would cross the crosswalk to the right in this photo.

s151. Vital Record: “Report of Separation From Active Duty DD Form 214,” Richard Lee Gleason (b. 1952), December 1975, Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, Filed by Gleason in January of 1976 at the Court House in Springville, Utah County, UT, #25955, Book 1245, Page 607, NOTE: When Gleason in the early 2000s attempted to secure a copy of this form via telephone from the court house, he was told it was no longer available.