Our family is celebrating John’s birthday and Paul’s progress towards graduation from Foothill College (and anticipated transfer to San Jose State University). Paul just received news of high grades on his second-to-last Foothill report card, and today started his final quarter there.
In honor of John’s birthday, Rev. David and Naomi Plocher (his parents) sent a card featuring what may be the first picture showing John with a model train. At four years old, he was already fascinated by railroads. Below is a recent photo of John with his current N-scale layout in what used to be our garage.
Images Copyright 2014 by Katy Dickinson, and 1966 by Rev. David Plocher
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Many happy returns, John. I seem to recall celebrating our joint birthdays last year. And of course, congratulations to Paul. Marvelous news. Am a SJSU alumn, and will be glad to have you join us. Dorothy
Miss seeing you! Happy birthday John and congrats Paul.