I’m Irish, and they were wishing for a German,” Bud interjects. “I was young, and I wanted to be able to date,” said Mary. “She wrote me a ‘Dear John’ letter,” Bud said. They wrote to each other, but when Bud’s words turned more serious, Mary knew she had to do the right thing.
Mary was a sophomore at Conshohocken High.
He enlisted in the Air Force and left for training in Nebraska right after graduation. It was fun, and led to more dates, but “we weren’t going steady, or anything,” said Mary.īud, who was a senior, studied at Philadelphia’s Roman Catholic High School. “Afterward, we walked five blocks to the drugstore for ice cream sodas,” he said. They saw Son of Frankenstein at a Conshohocken theater - Bud paid for the two, 10-cent tickets. “I said yes, but I really don’t know why,” said Mary. “I guess I was auditioning women for my future,” said Bud. Mary walked her dog past a pickup ball game when her next-door neighbor, Bud, broke off from the other boys to ask her to the movies.