New York Before Wedding

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.




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'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


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