The Kowalski Studios coding system confirms what I had already concluded, that this is Mrs. Isaacson's second grade class in the Spring semester of 1950. The photo was made in the gymnasium of Kalamazoo Street School, where the Board of Education's attractive meeting room is now located. As I recall, there was an awkward number of my cohorts registered at Kalamazoo Street, and in the second semester of first grade, Mrs. Isaacson had a class that was half first graders (including me) and half second graders. I know it irritated her that I was following the second grade lesson instead of my own and writing script before I was supposed to. By second grade it looks like we had become an abnormally small class of 20, with undoubtedly another class of second graders with another teacher. I know that many of my later classmates are missing from this photo and probably in the other class, including Ron Porter (Jack Davis may have been at Lincoln then as I think he appeared as a classmate only in 5th and 6th grades). The author is the boy in glasses kneeling at right in the first row. I believe the boy next to me is Morey Fineout (sp.?), who had been my neighbor when we lived at 505 Cherry (we had only moved away a few months before this picture was taken), and the boy next to him, in the shirt with plaid facing a cuffs, is Jimmy Gold. Vicky Brown is the black girl in the top row, and I believe the boy in the plaid shirt next to her is Tom Van Epps (sp?). Other identifications are a struggle, and if I err I ask forgiveness. I believe the girl in the print dress with the separate choker and the curls is Helen Huizinga (sp?), whom I remember with very red, curly hair. I believe the girl in the dark dress with white collar above Jimmy Gold's right shoulder is Collette Simpson. Other names escape me. Vicky's status as the only black person in the picture is misleading as the entire 2nd Grade cohort at Kalamazoo Street included several other African Americans including Thaddeus Cromwell and Esther Parker who immediately spring to mind.