Life Celebration For Kevin Frye

Life Celebration For Kevin Frye

November 22, 1953

June 26, 2009

What happened in 1953 ? • President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. • 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. • The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.

• The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City). • Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. • Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine

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April 1953

Friday 03: • TV Guide debuts. • Tuesday 07: • Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General. • Wednesday 08: • Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. • Thursday 09: • Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax • Friday 24: • Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. •

• May 1953 • Monday 04: • Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. • Monday 11: • The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. • Monday 18: • Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California). • Monday 25: • Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. • Friday 29: • Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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September 1953

Monday 07: • Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee. • Saturday 12: • John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier. • Sunday 13: • Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Soviet Union.

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October 1953 Monday 05: Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. Monday 12: "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York Thursday 22: Laos gains independence from France. Tuesday 27: British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. Friday 30: Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

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December 1953 Thursday 03: The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Republic of China is signed in Washington, DC. Wednesday 09: General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company Thursday 10: Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday 24: NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program Friday 25: A fire breaks out in Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong.

Kevin’s Nurse, Kevin, Steven St. Mary’s Center, March 2009

April, 2009

Steven, AIDS Walk, May 2007

Handsome Little Fella’

Steven

Steven; AIDS Walk 2007

Steven, train show at the Bronx Botanical Garden, 2007

Kevin and date dressed for prom, 1970

Angie and Kevin: circa 1970

Angie and Kevin at a prom; circa 1970

Kevin gets his nursing license

Mildred Scriber (Frye) Circa 1940

Mom is wearing that hat!

Kinda looks like …

Charlie and Steven at Christmas

Kevin at Christmas

Kevin; Central Park, NYC

Aunt Dot, Cousin Harold, Aunt Gwen, Steven, Chuck, Trappe, 1992

Mildred Scriber (Frye) Circa: 1922

Kevin in North Africa

Kevin in Hawaii

Kevin somewhere in the Middle East

Mildred Scriber (Frye) 1943

Kevin, Age 9, PS 28, 1963, Kevin’s center, back row

Kevin, Stitt JHS164, 1967, Kevin is fourth from left in back row That teacher looks very familiar

Mom, before us. (1945)

Grandma Jeter

Kevin; circa 1963

Kevin in Mexico

Kevin in North Africa

Central Park

Aunt Gwen, Steven, Dad Washington Mall 1990

Kevin at work, Bellevue Hospital, 1994

Charlie, Italy, WWll, 1943

Kevin in Mexico

Kevin: San Juan

Mildred Scriber (Frye), 1943

Mom; April 25, 1943

Mom, way before PITA!

Kevin and Steven, circa 1963

Kevin and mom; kitchen, 620 W. 152nd Street, March, 1963

Unidentified woman, granddad, mom, circa 1940

Kevin and Steven, 1960 note the Davy Crockett t-shirts

Who is that handsome devil with his aunt Dot; Bronx Zoo, 1950

Steven, Kevin, Chuck, Trinity Cemetery Hill, 155th Street, 1960

Mom, center left, Dad, center right, before us!

Steven and Kevin (on the floor), mom on sofa, Christmas 1959

Steven and Kevin, foreground, mom to the right of the tree with the fashionable sunglasses, August 1960, Anthony Wayne State Park

Steven, Dad, Kevin, Mom circa; 1960

Steven, Kevin, and babysitter, 1958

Charlie and his handsome son

Cousin Harold, age 3, circa 1945

Kevin, Rivington House, Christmas 1997

Kevin (standing), and Steven, Riverside Park and 152nd street, Winter 1958

Mom (on right) and her friends bike riding in Central Park, 1940

“Oh no he’s not?” Mildred at the beach. 1945

Steven (left), and Kevin Christmas 1958

Steven, Riverside Park, Winter 1959

Mom, sitting left. Steven and Kevin in the front. Christmas, 1958

Kevin and Steven Winter 1959 Who was writing on the wall?

Kevin, 1985

Summer 1968: Bear Mountain; Al, Sheila, Earl, Cathy, Nita, Chuck, and Steven Frye

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I think this was Kevin’s favorite vacation place.

Sigh, my old 1966 Volvo 122 Amazon, more plastic than steel

Steven, Left, Mel Herring and friend Cookout at Bear Mt., 1968

Kevin, circa 1955

Steven, JC George Komar, and Kevin, summer camp, Camp Hayes CYO, Port Jervis, New York

Kevin (Center) and Steven graduating from The Modern School (152nd street.) 1958

Kevin, rear right, at Larry’s picnic, Bear Mtn.Summer 1968

Kevin and two ladies, Remember those wool ponchos?

Earl Young, Nita, Kevin, and Me

Steven And Kevin; Christmas, 1960

Steven (front), Kevin, and granddad, 1959

Who is this handsome little fella at the Children’s Zoo; circa 1949