Hayne and Patsy wedding rehearsal August 23, 1957

walking down the aisle.  My brother Bill was acolyte.  When he saw me he burst into hysterical laughter.  I WAS wearing high-heeled shoes. 

On the left are birdesmaids Frances Evelyn Atwood, Kay Vanderpool and maid of honor Quay Williams. On right beside Hayne is his best man, Gene Lewis, and his brothers John and Tommy Reese.

On the left seated is my mother Ann Atwood.  Seated on the right are Tom F. and Marian Reese, Hayne's parents.

Hayne's brothers, Tommy and John Reese on the right.

Father John Salberg on the right, lovely lady facing us is  Linda Simpson, my college room mate

who came all the way from Harlingen.

Quay, Hayne, Patsy and Gene Lewis

I think Daddy was speaking when this was made.  How about those CURTAINS?

My best friend from second grade (we still get together)

This is my best friend Quay Williams...her name now is McCall.  The little photo at top is from our elementary school days.  Quay had a  wonderful playhouse in her back yard that we liked to play in.

In 1954 we were both in the All-State Orchestra and we had to have our pictures made for the high school annual.  We also were in some other organization that required head shots.  So after we posed for our formal pictures, we put on white shirts and ties over the formals for the second picture.  The photographer Mr. Profitt made this and gave it to us for a joke.  

In the lower left is Quay just before she went off to college. You can also see her in the wedding pictures I posted earlier; she was maid of honor at my wedding.  She made me a set of linen placemats and napkins that were hemstitched by hand.  What a gift that was, with all the things she was busy doing that summer!!!

My wedding in Comanche, 1957

The wedding was at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Comanche on August 24, 1957.  Bridesmaids were Frances Evelyn Atwood, Quay Williams (maid of honoe) and Kay Vanderpool.

I made my own wedding dress.  It was designed after a Givenchy dress from the Audrey Hepburn-Fred Astaire movie called "Funny Face" which was popular that year.

I also made Mother's hat and at the last minute, the wedding cake.  The Brownwood,Texas baker broke his leg a week before the wedding! So I made the cake and somebody in Comanche decorated it for me.

This is the Comanche, Texas High School marching band.  It was either 1955 or 1956 and I am in the color guard, the last person on the front row.

We practiced at 7 a.m. every morning for two weeks before school started.  When we could practice on the football field, we practiced marching 6 steps to 5 yards, which meant everybody stayed in line if they could keep up.

My dad designed the half time shows for the football games.  Nowadays there are computer programs for that.  We learned to play while marching, and had to memorize our parts so we didn't have to have those little clip-on music stands when we marched.

Carolyn Meyers, Quay Williams, Joyce McNutt, Bethel McDaniel, Patsy Atwood.  Color guard carried white wooden fake rifles and learned maneuvers with them.  I don't remember when we carried the flag, at parades I guess. 

Comanche High School Band

In 1952 our family moved back to Comanche, where my dad was born.  He became the Comanche High School Band director. Of course I continued in the band playing flute.

But in the marching band I wore a uniform with a short pleated skirt and carried a white fake rifle, in what was called the "Color Guard."

The three girls in the picture below are showing off their band letter jackets.  Left to right:  Patsy Atwood, Quay Williams, and Becky Baxter.