Hello Marty,

You are doing a great job with the Rockaway web site. So many memories are distilled from the images and stories you are reproducing. Wonderful!

I was not around to have my picture taken for the 1945 yearbook as I ran away from home and joined the Navy in 1944. I am including a photo of me taken at the time the yearbook photos were taken. Perhaps you can slip it in my yearbook. It's colorized, one I took and had tinted to send to my parents. I was in Oahu, Hawaii at the time and it was the first my parents had heard of me since I disappeared from home. I was signed up for a 'minority cruise' and the signatures of my parents on my application form were done by me. I was always good at calligraphy and could sign their names better than they could. The Navy didn't ask too many questions. I could breathe, jump up and down, so passed the physical and off I went.

Keep up the great job...
Earl "Bud" Wertheim, class of '45, now Professor Emeritus (in art)
email: bud@budsyard.com
website: http://www.budsyard.com/