The GI Bill Boys: A Memoir

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Ruth, in rear, author, on left, and best friend Doris Johnson, on right, ”puttin’ on,” around 1928. Author’s father is at the wheel, and Will is in the backseat of the Studebaker. Around 1926. The author, on left, the “young ’un,” and Ruth, the “knee baby,” in 1928. In 1928, Minna looks out at the wider world. The polite southerner, sitting in a classroom at P.S. 86 in 1931 in New York. The Suberman family (Jack’s parents, the two boys and daughter) in Miami Beach in 1937. The Miami Herald’s 1942 wedding picture of Ruth and Lt. Philip Heckerling. Lt. Jack Suberman in 1942, stationed at Davis-Monthan Field in Tucson, Arizona, one of his last assignments before going overseas. Lt. Jack Suberman in 1942, stationed at Davis-Monthan Field in Tucson, Arizona, one of his last assignments before going overseas. Capt. Jack Suberman in 1944 (with a fellow crewman) in India, in front of his plane. Camels on the plane represent missions over the hump and bombs represent combat missions. Rick and the author in Miami in 1944. 1944, Miami Beach: author’s father, mother, Rick, and mango tree. Ruth and son Dale in 1944. Birthday party in Gainesville for Rick’s third birthday (second party following the one given by the fraternity boys). George showing Rick how to play Missouri marbles in front of the Harpers’ Victory Village domicile in Chapel Hill in 1949; Bobby on steps. Jack, having just graduated from the University of North Carolina with his Ph.D., and showing signs of having celebrated the occasion quite well. He is flanked by his mother and the author. Jack Rubin, he of the German prisoner-of-war ordeal, visiting in Boca Raton in 1975. Dean Jack Suberman, in Boca Raton on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in 1967. Jack and the author, sixty-nine years after their wedding day of January 31, 1942. ...