Me (Richard Bryan Anderson)
Around the time of Pearl Harbor

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Parents & grandparents by the fire in Price  |  Flash technology  |  Bundled up  |  Yogi phase  |  In the sink  |  Flowers  |  Backlighting  |  Christmas card, 1941  |  The Seely Family, Christmas 1941  |  First Birthday  |  Fresh air  |  Christmas card, 1942  |  Sailor suit  |  Christmas: sweetness and loot  |  With friend David  |
Grandma Sophia  |  K.G. behind me on Sailor | Day care at the Poulters  |  Christmas card, 1944  |  Christmas tree, 1944  |  Fourth birthday  |  Brent!  |  Christmas card, 1945  |  Fifth birthday  |  Christmas card, 1946  |  “Sunken Heights,” 1945-6  |  Out back, in Sunset  |  Neighbor threatened to call cops, 1946  |  312 East Sixteenth Street   |  Snow! at the homestead   |  Christmas Greetings, 1946   |  Christmas Greetings, 1947   |  Christmas Greetings, 1948   |  Christmas Greetings, 1949-1950   |  Christmas Greetings, 1951   |  Christmas Greetings, 1952-3   |  Christmas Greetings, 1954-55   |  Christmas Greetings, 1956   |  Christmas Greetings, 1957   |  Christmas Greetings, 1958   |  Christmas Greetings, 1959   |  Christmas Greetings, 1960   |  Christmas Greetings, 1961   |  Christmas Greetings, 1962   |  Christmas Greetings, 1964   |  Christmas Greetings, 1965   |  Sound effects with stool   |  Baptized in Ninth Street Chapel, 1949  |  Snowball, 1954  |  Aaronic Priesthood award presentation, 1954  |  With Lea Ward, Double date with Dave and Lynda  |  Clowning on the hearth   |  Hung real icicles   |  By the bookcase  |  Three generations, in San Bernardino  |  Three generations, in Sunset  |  Nuclear crew  |  Patriarchal Four  |  Ill at ease in dinner jacket   |  Christmas morning  |  Sixteenth birthday  |  Badminton in front yard   |  Climbed the walnut   |  Burned walnut leaves   |  First shutterbugging: the Brownie   |  More badminton  |  Pinky jump  |  Bookcase group  |  Clarinet  |  Band uniform  |  Nuclear crew  |  By the lemon tree   |  Ambushed by wasps   |  Sixth birthday  |  Badminton  |  Valerie in curlers & Brigitte, 1965  |  Brigitte, 1965  |  Hesperus  |  Loved Pinky  |  Christmas 1956, with Brent, Annie, cats  |  Kitten Sloth  |  Double date  |  With Linda Meyer  |  Triple date  |  Another triple date  |  Mooched TV time from kindly Tjossems  |  Oophie worried about my salvation (I dislike dogs)  |  Del’s Baptism   |  Triple date  |  Another triple date  |  In Victoria, BC  |  Globe Theatre, San Diego  |  Liberty Jail  |  Washington, DC  |  Mount Vernon  |  Concord Bridge  |  Ardennes  |  Elizabeth Bradley Elementary School  |  Walked to school  |  Sixth-grade report card  |  Clarinet  |  Big run-in  |  Arrowview Junior High  |  Letter  |  Ninth-grade report card  |  Bullying  |  People, orchestra  |  Friends  |  Early dating  |  More people  |  More people  |  Pacific High School  |  Bailey, benefactor  |  Tenth-grade report card  |  Summer-school report card  |  Senior report card  |  Stimulated  |  Clarinet section  |  Marching Band  |  Festival, 1956  |  Festival, 1958  |  PHS Band, 1956  |  PHS Band, 1957  |  PHS Band, 1958  |  Passive clubbing  |  Science and Engineering Club   |  Key Club  |  Key Club Charity  |  Key Club 1956  |  Key Club 1957  |  Key Club 1958  |  National Forensic League  |  Voice of Democracy  |  Student Council   |  Director of Domain   |  Seminary  |  Seminary Chorus  |  Quartet  |  Kaiser Steel  |  Science Fair  |  Math Day  |  Beneficiary of publicity campaign   |  Sun/Telegram  |  “Teen Scene”   |  “HiTide”   |  “Dick” sign   |  Honor Roll  |  California Scholarship Federation  |  Senior Personalities  |  Scholarship assembly   |  Bank of America Scholarship  |  Bank of America Finalist  |  Bank of America Semifinalist  |  Semifinals News Coverage  |  Scholarships  |  Finals  |  Bank of America Third Prize  |  National Merit Semifinalist  |  National Merit Scholar  |  Co-Valedictorian  |  Graduation announcement  |  Baccalaureate  |  Commencement  |  On the stage  |  Program  |  Co-salutatorians  |  Co-valedictorians  |  On the library wall   |  Out of storage   |  Graduated in the Class of 1958   |  Diploma   |  On the hearth, with Killer   |  Outdoors  |  Graduation Ball  |  Baptized at San Bernardino First Ward  |  Pioneer Day, 1947  |  Primary, 1949  |  First met Valerie  |  Youthful contributions  |  Priesthood award, 1953  |  Temple excursion  |  Awards presentation  |  Priesthood award, 1955  |  Priesthood award, 1956  |  Ordained priest, 1957  |  Priesthood award, 1957  |  Seven Bishops  |  Temple Dedication  |  Seminary 1954-55  |  “Witchie”  |  Seminary 1955-56  |  Old Testament certificate  |  Seminary 1956-57  |  Report card  |  Seminary Breakfast  |  Seminary 1958  |  Graduates’ Day, 1958  |  With Hugh B Brown  |  …And Then The Bawl  |  President McKay  |  Seminary diploma  |  With Paul Dunn  |  MIT, 1958-61  |  Rush Week  |  East Campus  |  Ames Street  |  Tennis Courts  |  President’s House  |  Walker Memorial  |  Sailing Pavilion  |  Senior House  |  Jack Florey  |  Durgin-Park  |  Brownie  |  More Florey  |  Johnny on the pot  |  Exodus  |  Dormcon  |  Scholarship  |  House Committee  |  Culture  |  Shakespeare  |  Magic  |  Asimov  |  Concert Band  |  Music Library  |  Tom Lehrer  |  e. e. cummings (1894-1962)  |  Bartók/Juillard  |  Aldous Huxley 1894-1963  |  Hardy/Kraushaar  |  Academic diversity  |  Report Card  |  Grades & Priorities  |  Norbert Wiener (1894-1964)  |  Cambridge Branch  |  Mission to France  |  The Lead-up to a Mission  |  The Call  |  We Four  |  Stuff  |  Farewell  |  Training  |  Journal record  |  Across the Atlantic  |  Paris  |  Rennes  |  Arrival  |  Chez Besnard  |  Mission  |  Tracting  |  La Branche de Rennes  |  Sister Bauguin  |  October 23-24, 1961: the Bretons  |  October 25-27, 1961: Valton  |  October 27-29, 1961  |  October 29 - 31, 1961: first baptism  |  October 31 - November 1, 1961  |  November 2 - 4, 1961: Canal shack  |  November 4 - 5, 1961: Delétang  |  November 5 - 8, 1961: Menais  |  November 8 - 12, 1961  |  November 12-13, 1961  |  Switched journal to French  |  November 14, 1961: Moyle visit  |  November 14-15, 1961  |  November 15-18, 1961  |  November 18 - 20, 1961  |  November 20-22, 1961  |  November 22-23, 1961: Leroys  |  November 23, 1961: Higley as mime  |  November 23 - 25, 1961: Higley  |  November 26, 1961: Ajonc  |  November 27-28, 1961: Lande d'Ouée  |  November 28 - 29, 1961: Ste Anne  |  November 30, 1961: Ten baptisms  |  November 30 - December 3, 1961  |  December 3-4, 1961  |  December 4-5, 1961: Carnac  |  December 6-8, 1961  |  December 8-9, 1961: Mobylette  |  December 9-12, 1961  |  December 12-13, 1961: Marceau  |  December 13-14, 1961  |  December 14-16, 1961  |  December 16-17, 1961   |  December 17-18, 1961  |  December 18, 1961  |  December 18, 1961: Healing  |  December 18-19, 1961  |  December 20-21, 1961  |  December 22-25, 1961  |  December 24-25, 1961: Christmas fête  |  December 25-26, 1961: Escargots  |  December 26-28, 1961  |  December 28-30, 1961: Leroys  |  December 30-31, 1961: baptized Hubert  |  January 1-2, 1962  |  January 3-7, 1962: Halliday, Hill  |  January 10-14, 1962: Howard W Hunter  |  Permis de conduire  |  January 15-18, 1962  |  January 18-22, 1962: Best branch in the Mission  |  Confirmed Josette Leroy, 27 Jan 1962  |  Counselor to President Marcel Renaud  |  Administered to Alfreda Perrot 1 Feb 1962  |  Assigned to find a new meeting place  |  21st birthday: at the movies, with a pretty girl on my lap  |  Confirmed Claude-Gérard Leroy 18 Feb 62   |  Administered to Sister Bauguin 4 Mar 62   |  14 Mar 62: Took President Hinckley to see meeting-place candidates  |  Photo with Sister Salomon  |  Lost weight  |  With blossoms  |  23 Mar 62: Mission gives me permission to remain as counselor while in Rennes  |  Participated in settings-apart 30 Mar 62  |  Ordained Hubert Leroy deacon 30 Mar 62  |  Prayed with Sister Leroy before court appearance 5 Apr 62  |  Assigned to coordinate MJM by 17 Apr 62  |  Agreed to reunite Hill, Halliday, Anderobinson 20 Apr 1967  |  Went to 101 Dalmatians 19 Apr 62 to celebrate Halliday’s birthday, my sixth monthiversary, and Hill’s transfer  |  25 May 62: Mission Conference in Bordeaux; interviewed by President Tanner  |  Baptized Aurélie Chaussonnier 19 Jun 62  |  Confirmed Suzanne Fauchard 30 Jun 62  |  Moved at Brother Tani’s baptism 1 Jul 62   |  Directed youth chorus at District Conference, Angers, 1 Jul 62   |  Photo, among brethren   |  Confirmed Martial Le Bras 3 Jul 1962   |  Jumped the gun on typewriter purchase  |  8 Sep 62: at Le Mans, featured as Delabrosse Adam in L’École des Joyeux  |  9 Sep 62: took André Chaussonnier to the gare. Victim of “neat young student” hoax  |  Soon one whole year at Rennes!  |  Visited branches with President Desquines  |  Received a very welcome sandwich from Ernest Defaye   |  18 Oct 62: Went with district to Mont-St-Michel to celebrate my anniversary   |  19 Oct 62: at Mont-St-Michel (photo).   |  21 Oct 62 Anniversary celebration dinner, gifts, at Leroys’   |  21 Oct 62 Came down with grippe   |  7 Nov 62: I have the longevity record. 10 Nov 62 President Desquines and I visited branches again  |  16 Dec 62: Elder Mitton accompanied me to Leroys’  |  22 Dec 62 President Desquines and I visited branches again  |  23 Dec 62 Counseled with Elder Robins  |  1 May 63 Screwed up travel plans, but it all worked out  |  At Versailles with the folks  |  Self-portrait at Versailles Hall of Mirrors, with Halliday  |  Got to travel with the folks to Liège Youth Conference (photo)  |  With baguette & chamberlain  |  Wandered around Belgium without companion   |  Pushed temptation away  |  Esmé’s Cumorah, which she painted for Valerie and me  |  Taught Sister Panazol with Derr and Anstead   |  Confirmed Sister Panazol 6 Oct 63   |  1 Nov 63: Paris conference for auxiliary leaders  |  Carmen at the Opéra   |  On dolmen at Tours  |  Temple work in French  |  Wedding  |  Temple Garden  |  Reception  |  Worked at Slover Mountain    Assaulted Francisco-the-Raw-Mill-Foreman  |  Union Pacific to Boston  Showing off Rick in San Diego  |  Folks’ Boston visit, Christmas 1966  |  Old Ironsides  |  On Their Way to Paris  |  Sturbridge  |  Washington DC Temple  |  Boston Harbor Sycamore Sidewalk Out and around   |  Blizzard   |  Music   |  Piscatorial exploit   |  Christmas card, 1989   |  Reception line   |  The Asian Branch   |  Cyndi and Ron   |  Entry hall group   |  In the California Woods   |  Gatherings   |  Bryan, on Labor Day   |  1995—Spring Sing   |  1995—The Selfish Giant   |  1995—Debbie and Tony   |  Olsen Reception  |  With Doris & Valerie  |  Tasting  |  Chris & Mary Beth nuptials   |  On the porch at Penacook   |  Boston Temple site   |  CoMMensa graph   |  Grandsquirt #6: Lindsay!   |  Maggie’s Baptism   |  “Thanks-be-to-God” tie   |  Burgeoning cuteness   |  You’ve got to be kidding!   |  Wedding in Apex   |  With the Robertsons   |  Reunion at Timbaloo  |  With Emily and Zannah  |  Enjoying our gravestone  |  With Hepzibah in Reno  |  First laptop  |  With grandkids, in front of Timbaloo blackberries  |  In Nauvoo  |  Seeking Seelys in London   |  Matthew: Grandsquirt #8   |  Matthew’s blessing  |  Auto Museum  |  On Chankly site  |  At Promontory Point  |  At First Encampment park  |  Carson City: with Wolzes  |  Talent Show  |  More Talent Show  |  Fluffalo hike   |  The rededication   |  Bwumet Reception  |  Generational Portraits  |  Holidays in Sunset  |  Missed Thanksgiving in Sunset, 1963  |  Christmas in Sunset, 1965  | 
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