Jo from Frisco

A while ago, Jo Meiers Leggett sent me this family portrait of herself and her son, Doctor Cameron Leggett, and her beloved golden retriever, Chance, now 13 and entering his twilight years.

Cam served a residency at Tulane University in New Orleans and left one day before Katrina stuck, a hardship since he had so many patients and good friends there. Now he's installed in San Francisco at Kaiser Terra Linda, with a load of 1800 patients. (He must write eloquent reports, since he was an English major at Brown.)

Jo keeps busy with her photography (see September 02, 2005) and with serving on the board of her Alamo Square association, making sure that its parks and streets stay healthy.

Recently she was looking at old photos and found this one of the Stuart School cheerleaders, dated (I would guess) from the winter of 1953-54, when Jo was an 8th grader.

I'm pleased to have this souvenir, since it's our very first piece of recollection from Stuart Grade School to add to the "Grade School Memories" of the main SHS '58 web site. I hope that some alums from that school will send in memories and pictures before long. I also don't have much from Lawrence Grade School.....

The names of the cheerleaders are, left to right:
Jey Schien, Ginger Evans, Pat Flamm, Jo Meiers, Carol Ann Ewing, and Marguerite Mogul.

PS: Happy Memorial Day: check out the Iles House blog for some history.