Arnold and Newlin: Joel 1980

Joel is in graduate school at the Ohio State University in the early 1980s. He came out as gay to his family and friends. 

Joel, Crescent Beach

Joel being silly at Crescent Beach

Joel in Boston with OSU classmates

Joel and Jamie Josifek in Boston

Joel with Jeff Prine atop the World Trade Center

Joel at the Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine

Joel dated Brian Knedler starting in the summer of 1980:

Joel and Brian sunbathing by the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio

Joel and Brian in Brian's apartment on Iuka Ravine, Columbus, Ohio

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Arnold and Newlin: 1955 Allan arrives

Arnie and Newlin's second son is born in January 1955. He has blue eyes, unlike all his brothers and his parents, but like his paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather. 

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Arnold and Newlin: Life with Eddie 1954 part 1

This is Eddie's certificate of baptism from Old South Church in Boston:

And here are some photos of Eddie with dad Arnold and with mom Newlin in the MIT Solar House in the first half of 1954. The house was furnished in the 1950s modern style. Most of the large furnishings came with the house and did not belong to Arnold and Newlin.

Newlin and Eddie on the Caltech blanket, 1954, MIT Solar House yard

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Arnold and Newlin: September 20, 1953

John Edward "Eddie" was born Sunday, September 20, 1953. He was born via caesarean section, as were all of Newlin's subsequent four children. Arnold called his mother-in-law Nursie Whaley Ashmore the same day and she wrote a letter that evening, mailing it the next day.

The Boston Lying-In Hospital is now Brigham and Women's Hospital, but Newlin's room reservation was for Richardson House (now the Fisher–Richardson House).

In May Newlin's obstetrician arranged a room at Boston Lying-In Hospital's Richardson House in Mansfield, Massachusetts

this is a typical card to accompany delivered flowers or a plant

birth announcement card set out to family and friends

the envelope is addressed by Nursie's daughter (Newlin's sister) Floreine, who had distinctive handwriting

Blanche Whaley Howell was Nursie's brother's daughter (and Gordon was Blanche's husband). Gordon was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, and therefore Blanche was in Honolulu during the attack. Oh her return to the continent, she was told not to speak of it, to prevent home front morale from plummeting.

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Arnold and Newlin: Life in Boston 1952

After they wed in Florida, Arnie and Newlin move to Boston, where Arnie is in graduate school at the Massachusetts of Technology and Newlin takes a job as a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Their taxes get a bit complicated having worked in three states: California, Florida and Massachusetts. At first they live in quarters at 100 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arnie took a risk with this next photo. He was afraid the developer would refuse it for being pornographic or worse, turn him in to the authorities for pornography.

Newlin in the tub

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Arnold's Story: June 1951 graduation

Arnold graduates from Harvard Medical School in June 1951. His parents and sister come east for the  graduation ceremony and tour Boston and its environs.

Somehow these June photos did not developed until September

Laura Nevis circa 1951

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