l to r Pete Kennedy; Chalmer Mays; Marion (Tex) Burke,
Greensburg; Ron Nowicki; Jim Rogers, Postmaster, Erie, Pa; (seated
right) Walter Schiffauer, West Pittsburg; Francis Campagna, Oil City; John Barron, Wilkes Barre playing chess on
a slow day.
Tex Burke and Ron on the roof of the men's wing.
Ron Nowicki and Don Miller (hometown unknown) on the 2nd floor verandaof
the men's wing.
Nowicki with Ronald (Duke) Young, Pittsburgh. Young was a brilliant
guy, a master chess player. He "went over the hill" as we used to say, that is, he left Cresson without permission.
Betty Babyak, Pittsburg, and Ron Nowicki.
Jim Hammond, a friend of Ron Nowicki and Chuck Felton.
Jack Larsen, a friend of Ron Nowicki & Chuck Felton.
And here's Dot herself posing for a photo at the san. She worked
in the san kitchen from 1954-59. I had the pleasure of thanking her personally for helping provide all that
good food I wolfed down.
Jane (Lysic) Pyo, who was a friend of Dot's and worked in the kitchen also.
Evelyn Spade, former patient whose brother Melvin and cousin Tom both worked
at the san as orderlies.
A young woman named Rita who
was in an English or Scottish TB hospital when Ron was at Cresson. The nurses encouraged the Cresson patients
to write to patients in other sanatoriums.
The above is a copy of Ron's official discharge paper fron the sanatorium
signed by Dr. Harry W. Weest.
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Ron and Miss Jones, RN, on the porch outside ward W.
George Dixon, Tarentum; Jim Rogers. On the roof of the men's
West Wing.
Louis Cherry from Philadelphia.
Halloween Party at the patient's dining room. l to r Andre Duryea, Pittsburgh, trumpet player, formerly with Billy Ekstine big band;
unknown woman; Ron dancing with Patty Blair, Holidaysburg; local band in the background.
Cecile Krawczyk and Marybelle Marley (hometowns unknown) with Nowicki.
Ron , apparently about to deliver a speech. Taken on the san grounds.
The Usual Suspects.
Ron Nowicki, Jim Hammond & Jack Larsen out for a stroll. Photo
was taken in 1954 by Dorothy (Eckenrode) Smay of Gallitzin, Pa. Nice work, Dot.
Mary Ellen, who worked in the kitchen.
Jane again. Apparently that wall was a favorite spot for photos.
Ex-girlfriend and former patient Patty Blair from Holidaysburg.
Ron behind the microphone at san radio station WSAN. Jim Hammond and
Chuck Felton had the same job in 1956.
Ron "You talkin' to me, pal?" Nowicki.
Graduation photo from Penn State University 1960
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