Moving to Lenox Avenue was
a great improvement.
It came as I graduated from
Providence College.
This apartment house belonged
to your grandparents. We lived on the second floor.
It was a spacious apartment,
in a better part of the city.
While living at Eudora Street,
during my senior year, we bought a brand new car - a beautiful Ford LTD.
I loved this car, and it certainly
made our lives much easier.
No more buses to go to school
or to go to work.
Shortly after moving there our
second treasure arrived ... our Lisa was born.
We felt so lucky with our two
daughters and life was good.
I was lucky, because I got a
teaching job at Lincoln High School, before graduating.
In March of 1970, we went to
an Alumni Weekend at Providence College.
We met a former classmate of
uncle Fred, Mr. Lemuel Crooks,
who also graduated from PC,
and this person happened to work at Lincoln High School.
He was an English teacher, and
also the English Department Head.
He liked me and insisted that
I go visit Lincoln. I did go and met Mrs. Kennedy,
the Foreign Language Department
Head.
Weeks went by and I didn't give
it much thought.
One evening, while working at
Rhode Island Hospital,
I got a phone call from Mrs.
Kennedy asking me if I would like to substitute
for a language teacher who had
left for Reserve training for the rest of the school year.
Making a long story short, they
contacted Providence College,
who agreed to let me go (late
April),
I was excused from my final
exams by all my professors because I had a 4.0
going into my final exams...
and I started teaching,
with a written contract stating
that I would be hired if they were satisfied with my work.
I taught four Spanish classes
and one senior English class,
all this before receiving my
teaching degree, which happened a month later.
During these years that we lived
at Lenox Avenue, Providence,
mom took care of all of us and
continued working assembling earrings at home.
I would pick them up and deliver
them to the shop.
I enjoyed working at Lincoln
High School.
At first I taught German and
French.
One year after getting my BA
in French
I started my Master's Program
at Rhode Island College.
On November 17th, 1973, our
third treasure, Richard, was born.
We were so happy to have a boy
in the family so ... now our family was now complete!
Now we only desired to get our
own house, ... and it happened in April of 1974.
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