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SCHOOL AND GROWING-UP KEEPSAKES - PAGE 2 OF 2
The pages by the 16 kinds on the whole pie. This kind (N3, not writing branch) has 34 pieces on these pages. Inside a kind: oldest to newest, by the year each piece sits on in Tom's story, year by year. Pieces with no date found yet come last. The same year: by number. The heading above a piece is its group. Every piece has exactly one full listing; none lost.
4 pieces on this page · every one an original · every photograph, nothing hidden · dashed lines are yours to fill
SCHOOL PORTRAIT PHOTO
Item 1502
SCHOOL PORTRAIT - PINSTRIPE JERSEY
In one sentence: A studio school portrait from Tom's school years, a young man in a white pinstripe shirt and red tie, mounted in a brown presentation folder with gold trim.
Item type
SCHOOL PORTRAIT PHOTO
UNPUBLISHED
A studio school portrait from Tom's school years of a young man in a white pinstripe shirt and a red tie, mounted in a brown presentation folder with gold trim.
- Why it matters
- A studio school portrait of Tom from his school years - the face of the young writer before the songs; a piece of the life the lyrics came out of.draft - not yet proved
- Type
- Photo or artwork
- Collection
- Life-stage memorabilia ; School years ; Photosdraft - not yet proved
- Published in
- PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHEDSearched against the 34 albums, every book and Poems By Tom - found in none of them
- On the site
- Tom's Story: no date found yet
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The words on this page
Studio school portrait of a young man in a white pinstripe shirt with a red tie, mounted in a brown presentation folder with gold trim.
SCHOOL OR LIFE STAGE NOT SET
Item 1530
Standardized Test Score Report With Bar Graphs
In one sentence: A printed standardized test score report with bar graphs from Tom's school years, a sixth-grade national achievement test showing his national percentile scores by subject.
SCHOOL WORKSHEET AND GLOBE LETTER
Item 1544
Social Studies Worksheet - Ancient Greece And Rome
In one sentence: Tom's grade-school Social Studies worksheet on ancient Greece and Rome, filled in by hand with a red NEAT sticker, kept with a typed Boston Globe letter.
Item type
SCHOOL WORKSHEET AND GLOBE LETTER
UNPUBLISHED
Tom's school-days Social Studies worksheet on ancient Greece and Rome, filled in by hand and topped with a red NEAT sticker, with a lined page of his handwritten answers, kept with a typed letter from The Boston Globe.
- Why it matters
- Tom's grade-school Social Studies worksheet with a NEAT sticker and a lined page of his handwritten answers - early handwriting on paper by the boy who grew up to fill notebooks with songs and poems.draft - not yet proved
- Type
- Printed page
- Collection
- Life-stage memorabilia ; Grade school ; School work ; Handwritingdraft - not yet proved
- Published in
- PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHEDSearched against the 34 albums, every book and Poems By Tom - found in none of them
- Age when written
- about 1988-1992 (age 9 to 14)best guess - not yet proved: the worksheet is from grade school and is not dated; the Boston Globe letter kept with it is dated December 12, 2002
- On the site
- Tom's Story: 1988-1992
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The words on this page
Worksheet, Thomas Jensen, Social Studies, fill-in-the-blank vocabulary and short answer on Ancient Greece/Rome (citizen, patrician, democracy, aqueduct, Pax Romana, Aristotle, Sparta/Athens questions) plus a second sheet with essay-style answers on the Greek/Latin alphabet, Hippocratic Oath, government, and the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Julius Caesar becomes emperor... Pax Romana begins... They get attacked and fall). Red NEAT sticker with smiley face affixed to first sheet.
K THROUGH 8TH GRADE
Item 1556
SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL - SALEM MA PATCH
In one sentence: An embroidered round Saint Joseph School patch, blue with a gold border and letters drawn as sports figures, photographed with a birthday card to MR T.
Item type
MEMORABILIA · K THROUGH 8TH GRADEbest guess - not yet proved
UNPUBLISHED
An embroidered round SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL - SALEM MA patch of Tom's - blue with a gold border, the letters S J S drawn as figures playing sports - photographed with a printed birthday card to MR T for his 34th solar return, a big dotted letter T on its front, lying on his LadyWeaver planning sheets.
- Why it matters
- Tom's grade-school patch from Saint Joseph School in Salem, Massachusetts - a piece of the boy before the poems - kept with a birthday card to MR T on his 34th solar return, signed with much love by two friends.draft - not yet proved
- Type
- Object (not paper)
- Collection
- Life-stage memorabilia ; K through 8th grade ; Saint Joseph School, Salem MA ; Patches ; Birthday cardsdraft - not yet proved
- Published in
- PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHEDSearched against the 34 albums, every book and Poems By Tom - found in none of them
- On the site
- Tom's Story: no date found yet
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These words are a machine reading of the photograph, not a clean transcription. Read the picture.
The words on this page
[Embroidered school patch, not Tom's words: 'SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL - SALEM MA', blue with gold border, figures playing sports.]
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[Birthday card to Tom in picture 2, not Tom's words:]
To the Terrifically Tenacious,
MR T
Happy Solar Return No 34
May your light continue
to shine bright...
MUCH
LOVE,
A
&
[private detail - a first name]