A Collection of Recollections AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Edition BY WAYNE SCOTT SLAUSON Copyright © 2011 W. S. Slauson. Book created December 28, 2016, 7:14 pm CT. __________________________________________________________________________________________ ° A Collection of Recollections ° Table of Contents Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ ii Preface ........................................................................................................................................................................ v 1: Testing the waters ................................................................................................................................................... 1 2: Mom ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 3: 2012 Ninth St. Rensselaer, NY................................................................................................................................ 4 4: My Father ................................................................................................................................................................ 7 5: Doc .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 6: Pop ........................................................................................................................................................................ 11 7: Nana...................................................................................................................................................................... 13 8: Some personal comments..................................................................................................................................... 15 9: My Kentucky Story ................................................................................................................................................ 16 10: The Neighborhood .............................................................................................................................................. 23 11: Sammy Lieberman............................................................................................................................................... 25 12: Albany and the YMCA ......................................................................................................................................... 27 13: The Hollow .......................................................................................................................................................... 30 14: The Monks........................................................................................................................................................... 33 15: The Hudson River ............................................................................................................................................... 35 16: This Old House.................................................................................................................................................... 39 17: The Odd Fellows Home....................................................................................................................................... 41 18: Washington Avenue Garage ............................................................................................................................... 44 19: St. Paul's Evangelical English Lutheran Church ................................................................................................. 46 20: Close to Leaving ................................................................................................................................................. 47 21: Joe TenEyck ........................................................................................................................................................ 49 22: Sandy, The Pet I Left Behind .............................................................................................................................. 51 ii Table of Contents 23: Transition............................................................................................................................................................. 54 24: Beacon, NY ......................................................................................................................................................... 55 25: My first summer in Beacon.................................................................................................................................. 58 26: Beacon (Continued) ............................................................................................................................................ 61 27: Trouble in River City ............................................................................................................................................ 65 28: The Great Escape ............................................................................................................................................... 67 29: A Day to Remember ........................................................................................................................................... 69 30: Getting Started in the Air force ............................................................................................................................ 70 31: My First Leave - A Turning Point ......................................................................................................................... 74 32: MacDill AFB......................................................................................................................................................... 76 33: I'm Off Base (I've been told that before) .............................................................................................................. 79 34: Houma Sweet Home ........................................................................................................................................... 83 35: Meanwhile Back at MacDill ................................................................................................................................. 86 36: Another Leave and More About Joe.................................................................................................................... 90 37: The Sun Sets On My Time at MacDill ................................................................................................................. 91 38: One Hand Didn't Know What the Other Was Doing ............................................................................................ 93 39: More Responsibility (Not much and on short time) ............................................................................................ 97 40: Becoming a Kansan ........................................................................................................................................... 99 41: East Fourth St. Topeka...................................................................................................................................... 101 42: School, Work and Flood .................................................................................................................................... 104 43: My Job as a Police Dispatcher .......................................................................................................................... 106 44: Family Life ......................................................................................................................................................... 110 45: The Good and The Bad..................................................................................................................................... 113 46: Police Fire and Railroad .................................................................................................................................... 116 47: Becoming a Railroader...................................................................................................................................... 119 48: Living and Working in Chicago.......................................................................................................................... 121 49: Overcoming a Broken Promise ........................................................................................................................ 124 50: Back From the Big City...................................................................................................................................... 129 51: In The Beginning ............................................................................................................................................... 131 52: Moving on, Backing up ...................................................................................................................................... 133 53: There Comes a Day .......................................................................................................................................... 135 54: Married and Living in Emporia .........................................................................................................................