Arnold and Newlin: 1978

Nevis family photos and cards from 1978:

Eric's photo proof from Westwood Middle School

Arnie, Newlin and Eric

Andrew playing cards in his bedroom

Eric's declaration "I, Eric, am King"

Newlin, Allan and Arnold attending a wedding

Newlin, Allan and Eric attending a wedding

Newlin in her kitchen

Newlin opening presents at Christmas

postcard from China

a postcard of China from Newlin's friend Eleanor Hennig

Newlin returned to work in a hospital around this time and reregistered as a nurse in the State of Florida 

back of Newlin's Florida State nurse registration

Nevis family Christmas stockings hung by the fireplace 

Pat Nevis (Leonard's first wife) had knitted stockings for Eddie and Allan (she put just "Al" for his name, but the family never used that nickname for Allan), and Newlin knitted the stockings for Joel, Andrew and Eric. Arnie had bought and customized a small pair of Santa pants for Newlin as a joke one year and we continued to put it up for decades afterward. When we needed a stocking for Arnie, we used Eddie's. In this photo only Eric's stocking is full as the rest of us had outgrown the custom.

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Arnold and Newlin: 1976

The Nevises in 1976:

Joel, now in college, with high school friend David O'Brien

Arnold and Newlin always kept their Board credentials up to date

Andrew's high school photo from Buchholz

Arnie and Newlin in front of the fireplace at Christmas

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Arnold and Newlin: 1965

Nevis family photos from 1965:

Andrew's school photo from Littlewood, 1965

Andrew hunting Easter eggs in the backyard

Andrew with his Easter eggs

Joel with Easter eggs

Joel, Arnie, Andrew, and Allan, after church

Arnie, Allan, Joel, and Andrew

Andrew, Arnie, Joel, and Allan

Arnie, Andrew, Joel, Allan, and Newlin in Fanning Springs at the first Ashmore family reunion

Andrew with cousin Ferrell Barwick, Fanning Springs

Allan in the football uniform and helmet he got for Christmas

Andrew and Allan in their Christmas presents (frontiersman and football uniform)

Andrew in frontiersman outfit

Andrew in Allan's football uniform and helmet

Arnie in the 1960s

Allan, Andrew and Joel hanging stocking by the fireplace

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Arnold and Newlin: Christmas 1957

Arnie and Newlin bring the boys to Glendale to spend Christmas with their Nevis grandparents.

Christmas tree at 501 Mountain Street, Glendale, California

We still have the stocking seen on the floor here; Pat Nevis knitted it

Eddie and Allan, Christmas in Glendale, 1957

Eddie and Allan with Christmas toys

Christmas is over

Nevis family: Pat, unidentified, Hazel, Allan, Laura, Bill, Eddie, Virginia Rawley, Joel, and Newlin

Nevis family: Pat, unidentified, Laura, Hazel, Joel, Allan, Bill, Arnold, Eddie, and Newlin

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Arnold and Newlin: 1956 Holidays and Texas move

 Eddie turned three in September 1956:

Arnold and Newlin took Eddie and Allan to his folks in Glendale for Christmas (and to her family in Florida at New Years):

Newlin with Eddie and Allan, December 1956, Crawfordville, Florida

They return to Boston to find the Solar House has had a fire, as described in this Christmas newsletter:

After his graduation from MIT, Arnold accepts a position as assistant professor in physiology at the Galveston medical branch of the University of Texas and coordinator of their Muscular Dystrophy research program. Newlin later said that Arnie's position was funded by a wealthy Texan whose wished to fund the research, so Arnie checked out how she could set up a charity for that, but concluded after traveling around the country investigating existing charitable organizations that the bureaucracy that was needed to run the charity would consume more money than would go to research. He advised her to donate her money to an existing charity instead of continuing to fund his position. 

Arnold took out a loan under the GI Bill to buy that first house in Galveston, Texas.

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Arnold's Story: December 14, 1950

The 1950 Terry Rambler trailer was affectionately dubbed the "canned ham". Bill was a keen gadget purchaser; here we find him buying a new 16-inch GE television and giving his old one, a Crosby, to Leonard.

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