New York Before Wedding

Jim VDL, 2nd from left, 1947, age 11

Kathy VDL (far right) with college girlfriends, “The Farmettes”, at Farmingdale college

Heddy Donovan with adding machine at St. Catherine's event

Kathy bridal shower invitation

Kathy Donovan 8th grade class with Sister Marie Daniel, 1950-51. She's in the back row of seats, just right of center.

Kathy Donovan (second from left) 8th grade prom

Kathy Donovan (far right) 8th grade prom

Kathy Donovan caught the bouquet at friend Maureen's wedding, so she got the garter

Invitation to Dad's Bishop Laughlin High School senior prom in 1954

Bishop Laughlin High School senior prom, Jan. 1954. Dad was 17, mom was 15.

Bishop Laughlin High School senior prom, Jan. 1954, with names

ROTC Prom

ROTC Prom Cover

Mom's high school prom, 1956. Dad's house in St. Albans.

High School prom, 1956. Maureen's house? Ellen, mom, Helen, and Maureen.

High School prom, 1956. Maureen's house? Ellen, Helen, and Maureen.

Mom and Ellen. After prom they went "out on the town" to Greenwich Village, and to hear Jimmy Dorsey's band at a hotel. They went back to Ellen's house for breakfast

Breakfast at Ellen's house the morning after mom's high school prom, 1956

Then they all went to Jones Beach. Mom and Dad the morning after mom's high school prom, 1956.

Mom and Dad and friends at Jones Beach the morning after mom's high school prom, 1956

Ellen Schloerb and her prom date. Ellen was a little on the wild side.

Ellen Schloerb and her prom date

Maureen and her prom date

Mom's college prom, 1958

Mom college graduation 1958. (She got her AA in Advertising Art and Design from SUNY in Farmingdale, NY)

Mom college graduation 1958, with Bonnie Lee Lewis. Bonnie had a small car and boys used to pick it up and move it as a joke, so when she'd come out to the parking lot she couldn't find it.

Ray and Heddy Donovan, somewhere between 1956 and 1958

New York excursion boat. I think it says "Meseck Line." Might have been boat to Bear Mountain Amusement Park.

Friends who got married the same weekend as mom and dad, so they couldn't attend each other's weddings. They went to Bear Mountain Amusement Park together before their weddings. They are probably opening wedding gifts they gave each other.

Hans Naumann (right), Dad's ROTC friend

Back to Von Der Linn Family Slides & Photos