Reminiscences: Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

THE BIG HOUSE ON BALTIMORE AVENUE

• i - The Third Floor

• ii - The Big House Remembered

Chapter 2

THE ROHRERS

• i - Lorenzo D. Rohrer and Catherine Webster Rohrer

• ii - William Dow Rohrer

• iii - Claribel Shuck Rohrer

• iv - Jeanette Kathryn Rohrer

• v - George, Florence,
and Pershing Rohrer

• vi - Pershing Rohrer

Chapter 3

EARLY BOYHOOD
1921-1929

• i - East Side, West Side

• ii - Daddy

• iii - Playing and Growing

Chapter 4

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1927-1933

• i - 1927-1929

• ii - 1929-1933

Chapter 5

TRANSITIONS 1932-1935

• i - Goodbye, Grandpap

• ii - So Long,
216 Baltimore Avenue

• iii - Mother

• iv - Gains and Losses

Chapter 6

THE WALLACES
AND THE GEATZES

• i - T. A. Wallace and Family

       • Theodore

       • Mary

       • The Wallace Children

• ii - Wallace Family Roots

       • John and Emily (Martin) Wallace

       • James and Anna
         (Gramlich) Wallace

• iii - Geatz Family Roots

Chapter 7

'TIS ALLEGANY
1933-1939

• i - Grade 7, 1933-34

• ii - Grade 8, 1934-35

• iii - High School:
Freshman Year, 1935-36

• iv - Sophomore Year, 1936-37

• v - Junior Year, 1937-38

• vi - Senior Year, 1938-39

• vii - The Summer of ‘39

Chapter 8

THE POST-GRADUATE
September 1939-January 1941

• i - Catherman’s Business School

• ii - Wayne Miller

• iii - CSMC

• iv - Home and Family

• v - Pursuing “Culture”

• vi - Whatever Happened to Jane and Ted... and Ann?

• vii - Don Rolley

• viii - Working

Chapter 9

THE YOUNG CIVIL SERVANT
January 1941 - April 1942

• i - Getting Started

• ii - On My Own: Summer 1941

• iii - The Imminence of War

• iv - The Beginnings of War

Chapter 10

SOLDIER BOY
April 1942 - July 1943

• i - A Private Life - Briefly

• ii - “You’re in the Army Now!”

• iii - Army Clerk

• iv - Soldiers & Friends Off-duty

• v - Maternal Attachment

• vi - Stress

• vii - “A Beautiful Friendship”

• viii - An Unhealthy Development

• ix - A New Way of Life

• x - A Hot Summer on the Town,
and Elsewhere

• xi - Pat and Me, continued

Chapter 11

AT THE SUMMIT - 1943

• i - QUADRANT

• ii - Back in the U.S.A.

• iii - SEXTANT/EUREKA

• iv - The Rest of 1943

Chapter 12

IN THE ARMY - 1944

I - The Pentagon Windup

• i - As 1944 Began

• ii - January

• iii - February

• iv - March

• v - April

• vi - May

• vii - June

• viii - July

II - The Belvoir Muddle

• i - Fort Belvoir: It’s Different,
All Right!

• ii - Assignment Snafu

• iii - “At Ease”

• iv - It’s Basic

• v - Overseas Assignment
Bungle Resolved (??)

• vi - The Grand Finale of ‘44

Chapter 13

IN THE ARMY - OVERSEAS
25 December 1944 -
12 March 1946

          I. FORT HAMILTON
            AND NEW YORK CITY

          II. LE HAVRE

          III. ENGLAND

• i - Bushey Park

• ii - Experiencing Greater London

          IV. FRANCE

• i - Versailles

• ii - Paris in the Spring

• iii - Victory in Europe

• iv - Adieu, Versailles et Paris

          V. HÖCHST

• i - Settling In

• ii - On Duty and Off

• iii - Fun & Games

          VI. BERLIN

• i - Arrival

• ii - Getting Established

• iii - The Allied Control
        Authority (A.C.A.)

• iv - The Army Takes Care
        of Its Own

• v - Camaraderie at No. 97

• vi - Experiencing Berlin

• vii - The Girl Back Home

• viii - Vacation in Switzerland

• ix - Countdown and
        auf Wiedersehen

          VII. GOING HOME

• i - Geislingen

• ii - Camp Tophat, Antwerp

• iii - The Last Leg

   APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 13

• Letter from Chris Larsen

Chapter 14

NEW BEGINNINGS
March 1946 - February 1947

i. Reconversion

ii - New York Revisited

iii - Engagement Summer

iv - Getting Along in New York

v - Songwriting, Etc.

vi - Job-related Miscellany

vii - Wedding Plans

viii - Culmination

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