Jim Beard, 1961-1969

jb61001: His parents' wedding, 1961, Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Severson

jb62001: June 5, 1962, James Edward Severson, II

jb62002: Christmas, 1962	jb62003: Christmas, 1962
jb62004: Christmas, 1962	jb62005: Christmas, 1962
jb63001: 1963	jb63002: Easter, 1963
jb63003: 1963	jb64001: June 6, 1964 (unplanned participation in his aunt's wedding)
jb64002: June 6, 1964 (day after his second birthday)	jb64004: Christmas, 1964
jb64003: May, 1965	jb65000: May, 1965, with mad cat
jb65001: June 5, 1965 (third birthday)	jb65002: 1965
jb65003: 1965, with Brett aged 1 week	jb65004: 1965, with Brett aged 1 month
jb65005: 1965, with Brett aged 2 months	jb66001: January, 1966
jb67001: November, 1967	jb67002: Christmas, 1967
jb68001: September, 1968	jb68002: 1968, First school picture
jb69001: May, 1969	It was a year after the photo to the left was taken that "our darling Jimmy" became "Jim" to me.  His mother Molly was seriously ill, so I had flown to Denver to bring him and his two younger brothers to Princeton to live with me until she recovered.  Molly was raising the three boys on her own and had very little money.  She had managed to buy a small house in a new development but hadn't yet found the money to buy grass seed, so their yard was still just dirt.  I discovered that Jim had been going out on his bike twice a day to ride up and down the streets of their development looking for squares of sod that had fallen off trucks making deliveries to the other new houses.  He had managed to sod a good-sized area of their yard.  It was then that I realized what a responsible person had come into the world.  MWV.