Swagerty-Aldrich Family Web Site
Family Stories, Photos and Videos-Past and Present
Brian relaxing at home in 1990 I spent a full career in Education with wide and varied experiences. However, I only spent one year serving as a classroom teacher. I started my teaching career as an “Instructor/Counselor” at Whiskeytown Environmental…
Read More My First and Only Year of Classroom Teaching, 1,956 words
I've been told that I wasn't as easy a baby as my older sister. All my parents had to do to get my sister to stop doing something was to tell her not to do it once. Telling me no…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve Reflections in My Later Years One evening recently my husband turned to me and asked me three questions. I am not sure where these questions came from or at this point can he. I knew he…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve Weapons in the Classroom Being a classroom teacher, for thirty-seven years, provided me with a different experience every day. This particular day happened twenty-one years ago in 1994 when I taught seventh graders at Morada Middle…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve I had the privilege and burden of being the only child that lived in the same town as my mother. Thus I spent much of her last decade with her on a regular basis. I tried…
I feel I have lived in the best of times to see live music. I have seen many of the classic rock and roll groups and artists, live. I’ve seen Jimi Hendrix; Neil Young; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; John…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve Shannon Swagerty, Eve Perrill, Donna Swagerty Shreve at ceremony for Melva Swagerty on Coast Guard Cutter Ernie had requested if he could scatter his dear friend Ron Boone’s ashes. He had his own boat and he…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve The Christmas of 1952 stands out from the rest from my childhood memories. We were living on Kern Avenue in Escalon, California. I was seven years old and in second grade. The magic of Santa was…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve In 1958 the day had finally arrived. I had asked, pleaded, cajoled enough until my mother had agreed to take me shopping for my first bra. As an eighth grader, I was convinced that every girl…
by Donna Swagerty Shreve The Travels of the High Boy/ Low Boy Three Shreve generations looking at names in Low Boy drawer. Jack Shreve, John Shreve, Aaron Shreve in El Paso, Texas. Inside the large wide drawer in the low…
Swagerty-Aldrich Family Web Site 