Valentines memory


To the Editor:


I have just seen the digital version of last week’s Reporter cover of the Around the Island section, which featured three Valentine’s Day cards from the Historical Society’s archives. I thought you might like to know that I donated the cards to the Historical Society. They may have been given either to my sister, Jean Dickerson, or to me. I think we were in the 3rd grade with Mrs. Harold Crowell at the time — around 1948.


Ruth Ann was indeed the Ruth Ann Dickens mentioned in the caption and we had two boys named Charles in that grade — Charles Dickens and Charles Schweinsburg, always called Bobby. There was another Bobby also — Robert Gulluscio — so the “Bobby” referred to in the caption could have been Bobby Schweinsburg or Bobby Gulluscio. I think the card giver was probably Bobby Schweinsburg, however.


What fun to see the pictures of the cards. I really enjoy the items based on material found in the Historical Society and I’m pleased that they are accessible in the digital version, if not on the website version.


JANE (DICKERSON) FOWLER


HOLMES, NEW YORK