January-

Father Marcel Salinas became associate pastor at Sacred Heart Parish, Prescott, Arizona.

February-

27: Grant Shaud (1961-), actor who played Miles Silverburg in the television show Murphy Brown, was born.

May-

13: Bobby Darin (1936-73) 's 25th birthday.
Bob and Ceil packed up the kids and all their belongings and headed for Arizona. After a few days' stay with his brother, Mel, in Phoenix, Bob found a house for his family on "Positively" 4th Street in Scottsdale. It had a back yard enclosed by a tall redwood fence, with a gate, which opened with a grand view of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church and school in Scottsdale, AZ. Before the church was built, masses were held in the church hall.
The Connors family lived across 4th Street.

June-

Bobby met a couple of seminarians who attended the Regina Cleri minor seminary in Tucson, Arizona, and the newly ordained Fr. John Ahearn.
Bobby tried going door-to-door selling the newspaper of the Tucson diocese.
27: Brian Gray (1959-)'s birthday.
Fr. Maguire asked Bobby to help the youth group with their upcoming sock hop by painting a poster. Bobby met Mary Connors and her friends from the youth group. Mary had just graduated from Xavier Girls High School.

July-

The dj Sonny Knight spun records at the 4th of July teen dance at OLPH.
Bobby met Jeanmarie and Bobby Thomas, the children of Bob and Dorothy Thomas, friends of Mel and Alice Gray. Mel and Bob Thomas worked for Mirring's Florist in East Saint Louis, Illinois.
17: Cecilia Dolores Gray (1942-)'s birthday in Scottsdale, Arizona.

September-

The movie theme song Come September and Multiplication by Bobby Darin (1936-73) were popular songs.
Tom Polk did not return to St. John's Seminary, he went to Bishop Forest High School. New seniors: James Hutzler and John Westendarp.
Tim Gray (1956-)'s first day of school, in the first grade at OLPH. His older brother, Vincent Gray, attended eighth grade, and their sister, Sara Louise, was registered in the fourth grade.
Cecilia and Bobby returned to San Antonio, Texas. Bobby became a senior at Saint John's Seminary, and Cecilia became a Sophomore at Our Lady of the Lake College.
11: Ceil Gray (1920-91)'s 42nd birthday in Scottsdale.

October-

1: Christine Marie (Gray) Clouse was born to Ceil and Robert Gray at Saint Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona. Tina was baptized at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Scottsdale.

November-

Cecilia and Bobby Gray had Thanksgiving Dinner at the Haidusek Family Home. Mary Frances Barta and her friends took Bobby out to New Beila Dance Hall to see old friends.

December-

25: Cecilia and Bobby Gray spent Christmas vacation in Scottsdale with the rest of the Gray family.

January-

Cecilia and Bobby Gray returned from Scottsdale to their studies in San Antonio.
Bobby tells Fr. Grass, his spiritual director, of his plans to discontinue studies for the priesthood.
Fr. Grass asked, "Why don't you leave now?"
Bobby said, "I'll wait until May."
20: Mary Schultz married Paul Cloedy in Illinois.
Bob Gray Sr. packed and left Scottsdale for Prescott. His brother, Melvin, followed in his car. Bob was to begin his new job in Prescott. Near Cordes Junction, Bob lost control of the car while sliding on the slick snow to the edge of a precipice. After getting safely back on the road, Melvin took Bob's family back to Phoenix, and Bob proceeded to Prescott, sending for the family later.

February-

Bob Gray became Court Reporter for Yavapai Superior Court in Prescott, AZ. Judge Jack Ogg, presiding. Bob moved his family to 903 Milton Avenue in the Mountain Club subdivision of Prescott. There was a little sandlot park across the road from the house Bob rented from Mr. Jack Huie.
2: Vincent Gray (1948-)'s 14th birthday.
20: John Glenn, first American to orbit space.
27: Bobby Gray (1945-)'s 17th birthday; Sara Louise Gray's 9th birthday.
Adam Baldwin (1962-), actor in Independence Day/ID4 (1996) and The Patriot (2000), was born in Chicago, Illinois.

March-

11: Grandpa Rob Gray (1896-1963)'s 66th birthday.
22: Timothy Gray (1956-)'s 6th birthday.

April-

22: Easter- Bob Gray III spent Easter with Michael Valerio's family. They owned Valerio's Restaurant in San Antonio, TX. and Mike helped his family at the restaurant. Cecilia went to stay with Shirley Lemke and the Mazoch family in Weimar.

May-

John and Helen Oakley and Family moved to Prescott, Arizona. Dr. Oakley opened his office with Dr. Dennis Semkin and Dr. Ritter called the Oakley, Ritter and Semkin medical offices, on the hill where Grove Ave. dead-ends at Gurley Street in Prescott. Bob Gray met them and they played rounds of golf at the old Hassayampa Country Club. Dr. Ritter played tennis, and all the kids went swimming. 1: Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony Mahony was ordained a priest in the Fresno Diocese. In 1975, he was ordained as the Titular Bishop of Tamascani and Auxiliary Bishop of Fresno. On April 25, 1980, he was named Bishop of Stockton . Five years later, on May 16, 1985, he was named Archbishop of Los Angeles and was installed on September 5th. He became the first head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese to have actually been born in Los Angeles. On June 28, 1991, Roger M. Mahony was elevated to Cardinal, titular church, Four Crowned SaintsMahony (1936-), Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- ) was born in Hollywood California. Roger Michael Mahony was appointed Archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope John Paul II on July 16, 1985. He was installed as the fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles on September 5, 1985. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal on June 28, 1991. Born in Hollywood, Cardinal Mahony is the first native Angeleno and the third Archbishop of Los Angeles to be created a cardinal.
7: Thomas Gray (1957-)'s 5th birthday.
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Haidusek and E.J. picked up Cecilia Gray at OLL College in San Antonio, and took her to Bobby Gray's graduation at Saint John's Seminary, 222 East Mitchell. Edwin took pictures in the new chapel. Then he drove to Weimar to get more of the family, packed the car and took Cecilia and Bobby to Prescott, Arizona. Carmen Haidusek stayed home with her sisters, Arlene, Edna, and Mary Helen.
Robert Gray Sr. and Sadie came to visit The Grays in Prescott, with Darlene, Chink, Pat, Kevin, Debra and Karen Roush, and they all took a tour caravan to Jerome and the Grand Canyon. When they got to Jerome, Darlene and Sadie refused to get out of the car, they were so scared from the hairpin curves and high mountain altitude. Edwin took movies.
Bobby and Dickie Geever climbed Thumb Butte. E.J. and Vince killed a rattlesnake on the way up Thumb Butte, by an alternate route.
The Haidusek's returned to Weimar.

Cecilia got a job at Patterdell Pines, a home for delinquent girls. She was attacked by a girl with a scissors, and Grandma Gray told her to quit that job, so she went to work for a title company.
The Gray Family moved from Milton Avenue to Mount Vernon Avenue, because the house on Milton was sold by Mr. Huie.
Sadie and Robert left for East Saint Louis with Darlene and the Roush family.
Bobby met Jan Hyde, who lived across the street Mount Vernon Avenue, and sunbathed in her front yard in a yellow 2-piece swim suit. She was Vince's age, having graduated from 8th grade at Washington School. Being a member of the Rainbow Girls' club, Jan invited Bobby to go to a deMolay dance at the Hassayampa Country Club. The clubhouse there was a log cabin. Bob Gray Sr. often went there for cocktails with Dr. John Oakley and this was where they met Bill Stamm, the bartender. The rest of the family would swim in the pool.
Bobby met Carol Burke and her brother who lived two doors down the street, next to Butch and Bobby Hampton.
29: Peter Lawford flew Marilyn Monroe to President Kennedy's 45th birthday. Dressed in a skin-tight sequined dress, she sang, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President," in a breathy voice. She was having problems on the set of her movie, Something's Gotta Give, which she was making with Wally Cox and Dean Martin.

June-

Cecilia and Bobby went to see Judgement at Nuremberg at the Elks Theatre, where Bobby learned about the Holocaust. Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for Best Actor. Maximilian Schell was also nominated.
9: Liz (Blair-Weber) Mauch was born to Glenna Claussen and Bob Blair in Belleville, IL.
16: Grandma Sadie Gray (1896-)'s 66th birthday
Bobby Gray walked to the drive-in to see Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass;
He walked down to the ballpark to watch Vince play Babe Ruth Baseball, and met Theresa Rodarte.

Stephanie "Stevie" Baker, interviewed Bobby for the newspaper. Her mother wrote a column called Ginny's Gems for the Prescott Courier, and was a good friend of Bob Gray Sr. Bobby also met Nick Brewer, Stevie's boy-friend who worked at the Dairy Queen. Bobby got a job working for the Prescott City Directory, canvassing homes with Larry Folsom and Bill Hunter. Fred Lentz, the older brother of Louisa, took Bobby around to show him the town from the hill in Prescott Heights, and to some dances at Oddfellows' Hall on Goodwin Street, off the courthouse plaza downtown, and other dances under the pavillion at Watson Lake, where Ron Brambila was spinning the latest tunes.
25: Anna Margaret "Aunt Annie" Nieman died in East Saint Louis. She died at Popejoy Retirement Home, where she lived since 1960, after her brother, William Nieman, had died in 1958. The Neiman Home was sold by his son, Fred Niemann. Aunt Annie was Ceil Gray's godmother.
27: Brian Gray (1959-)'s 3rd birthday.
29: Cheryl Svymbersky (1962-)was born.

July-

Jim Garner and Family moved to Prescott, and he became editor of the Prescott Courier.
Matt Butita from Chicago, had bought Van Atta's Bungalow on Whiskey Row and renamed it Matt's Saloon.
6: Stephanie Baker interviewed Bobby Gray III for her Teen Corner column in the Prescott Courier newspaper.

http://www.bilderberg.org/hbomb.htm
Watch a film about the "Project Sedan" bomb from plowshares.

August-

Bobby Gray applied to attend ASU and was accepted as a Freshman. 5: Marilyn Monroe (1926-62) was found dead of apparent suicide from an overdose of medications, during the night of Aug. 4-5;
9: a href=http://www.levity.com/corduroy/hesse.htm>Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) has born in Calw, Germany, July 2, 1877, d. Aug. 9, 1962, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

21: Debra Ann Roush was born to Darlene (Gray) and Vernal.

September-

Bobby Gray went to ASU in Tempe, AZ. Since there were no rooms in the dormitories, Bobby was on the waiting list. In the meantime he stayed at a dormitory with Sigma Chi fraternity for Architecture students. The windows in the sleeping room were painted black, for anyone who had trouble sleeping. Bobby had planned to study architecture because the fraternity sent him an invitation, and it had been a long time since Bobby had been invited to do anything.
Bobby met Kim Moody, who lived with his parents in Tempe. During Freshman Orientation Week, they painted the A on the butte. Bobby met some Italian and Jewish friends from New York, who lived in Haigler Hall, which was under the grandstands at the old track stadium. They went to the Newman center and then to the Jewish center, where they celebrated by folk dancing to "Hava Nagila." Ecumenism was gaining momentum.
A room became available in Irish Hall, and Bobby's first roommate was John McCullough. Bobby met Harvey Wilhelm, Ernest Mora, Joe Granio, Peter Steele, and Richard Mayer, who also lived in Irish Hall. Bobby spent a lot of nights discussing religion with Harvey Wilhelm of St. John's Az. at Kim Moody's house. Kim's mother played piano and their family sang songs. His dad, Mr. Moody taught in the Agriculture Department.
Bob took Spanish, History, and "Algebra and Trig", a combined math class. He had 18 credit hours, and worked in the cafeteria. There he met Juanita "Nita" Shea and Mary Livingston, Arizona-raised Catholics who lived in Gammage girls dormitory. The girls dorm had sleeping porches like the Frat House. Boys had to call at the desk for girls and the head residents locked the doors at night. The girls had to be in by ten on weeknights.
Bob met Ernest Mora and Joe Granio from Yuma, who lived in Irish hall B wing, and David Salazar, from Prescott, who lived in Irish A wing. B and C wings had inside patios like cell-blocks, and all the rooms were for two men. You had to go outside and down the semi-exterior "hall", the outdoor patio, for showers and rest rooms.
Jerry Lewis came to ASU to shoot some outdoor crowd scenes for The Nutty Professor movie.
Vince Gray started high school at Saint Joseph's Academy, and Sara was in 4th grade at Sacred Heart School in Prescott, Arizona. Cecilia returned to OLL College in San Antonio, Texas.
11: Ceil Gray's 42nd birthday.
18: Therese Newmann von Konnersreuth (1898-1962), German stigmatist, died.

October-

1: Christine Marie Gray (1961-)'s 1st birthday in Prescott Arizona.
Ken Halbrook (1953-)'s 9th birthday.
13: Catherine Sullivan married Dan Barbeau.

November-

Bobby went home for Thanksgiving to Prescott, AZ.
Bob met James Turcott whose mother taught in a school in Tempe. James introduced Bobby to a student from Tehran, Iran, named Fereydoun Ave, and to Nick Portis, who was from Prescott, AZ. Educated in London, Ave (pronounced Ahv) was sent to Arizona by his family to study desert agriculture, in preparation for a future job as Minister of Agriculture in Iran. Ave was more interested in Music and the Arts. Bob introduced him to the music of Bob Dylan, the folk-singer.

December-

4: Bob Gray (1917-78)'s 45th birthday.
His favorite song was, I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett.
16: "Refrigerator" Perry was born. He was a football player for the Chicago Bears, who made a music video called The Superbowl Shuffle.

Poet Sylvia Plath (1932-63) committed suicide.

February-

27: Bobby Gray (1945-)'s 18th birthday.

March 7- Terry Gray born on the 18th birthday of John Heard (born March 7, 1945, at Washington, District of Columbia, USA-) actor who was in Jack and Bobby TV series on the Kennedys; played a reverend in the 7th Sign. He was also in Edison; Pollock; Mindwalk; Beaches; & 2 Home Alone movies.

May-

Ron Evans, president of Best Western Hotels, graduated from ASU.

August-

7: Anton Vovk (1900-63), Archbishop of Ljubljana, died at Ljubljana, Slovenia, in odium fidei.

November -

22: JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Bobby Gray was constructing & decorating an "immovable float" out in front of Irish Hall Dormitory for Homecoming: an Atomic bom blowing up the away team in a miniatrue football stadium, when he heard the news.
23: Bobby Gray went home to Prescott, AZ for Thanksgiving.
24: Richard Cardinal Cushing gave the eulogy at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy.

1964

Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) met with Greek Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first such meeting since 1439.
Canonization of Saint John Maria Muzeyi (-1886), Saint John Mary Mzec (-1886), and Saint Joseph Mukasa (-1885) of Uganda.
The Roman Catholic Church allowed each nation to say Mass in the language of the nation. Churches in the United States changed from Latin to English.
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), Irish playwright, died. Famous for The Plough and the Stars, etc.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-64), Irish-American Catholic woman author.

January-

Bobby Gray returned to ASU in Tempe Az.
Cecilia Gray returned to OLL in San Antonio.
Bob Gray and Ernest Mora learn to dance "the monkey" to the tune of Major Lance, who recorded Monkey Time. There were mixers and black athletes in the basement of the Memorial Union at ASU near the bowling alley, where there was a jukebox, and students played songs and danced. The Men of Irish Hall held a mixer there.

February-

2: Vince Gray's 16th birthday.
7: The Beatles left England for the USA!
9: Beatles created an American Sensation when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with a record 73 million viewers. 60% of all discs on the air were their songs: I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah), I Feel Fine, I Shoulda Known Better, If I Fell, I'm a Loser, Can't Buy Me Love, Please, Please Me, and the covers for Twist and Shout, Roll Over Beethoven, and even 'Til There Was You (from the Music Man)... Their two hottest selling albums, Meet the Beatles and Introducing the Beatles. They had just made their first B&W movie, A Hard Day's Night.They made $150,000 in Kansas City, the highest fee ever for a concert. Teenage girls screamed louder than they did for Sinatra.
There was a British Invasion, with their closest rivals, The Rolling Stones The Last Time, It's All Over Now, and Time is On My Side, "Dave" Gray's Favorite- The Dave Clark Five Glad All Over, Eric Burdon and the Animals' House of the Rising Sun, Billy J. Kramer Little Children, Peter and Gordon A World Without Love, The Kinks You Really Got Me, Gerry and the Pacemakers Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, etc. (see 1965, etc.) following close behind. In movies, there was Sean Connery in the James Bond films Thunderball, Dr. No, and Goldfinger with a title song sung by Shirley Bassey. All this probably because America had lost a president and needed some distraction (read happiness). Joan Walsh Anglund books were popular, Bobby sent Love is a Special Way of Feeling, to Carmen Haidusek as a gift.
The Beatles inspired Bob Dylan to form a band and try Rock and Roll.
12: Ash Wednesday.
18: 400th Memorial of the death of Michelangelo Buonnarotti (1475- 1564).
27: Bobby Gray's 19th birthday, Sara Gray's 11th.

March-

5: James Branz born to Rosemary (Sullivan) and Lawrence.
6: Memorial of Michelangelo (1475-1564)'s birthday.
29: Easter.

April-

23: Bobby Gray dated Juanita "Nita" Shea, for the big ASU celebration of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 's 400th birthday party. Historians arent sure of the day he was born in April, but he died on April 23, 1616.
Nita wore Ceil Gray's wedding dress, and Bobby cut the train off to make a peaked cap.
26: The day Shakespeare was baptised.
Bobby later took Mary Livingston to a party with a Hawaiian theme and made her a lei.

May-

The Bob Gray Family went to San Antonio, Texas, for the Magna Cum Laude graduation of Cecilia Gray from Our Lady of the Lake College. The "largest cheering section."
Bobby Gray saw his buddy Louis Quintanilla at a dinner with Cecilia, Libby Huber and some of their friends. Bobby started thinking about returning to the seminary. Ceil gave him an advertisement from the Our Sunday Visitor Catholic newsweekly about an order, the Pauline priests, which was thinking of specializing in motion pictures.
Then the Grays went to visit the Edwin Haidusek family in Weimar, and Bobby gave Carmen a copy of the song, People from the Broadway Musical, Funny Girl sung by Barbara Streisand.

June-

Bobby went to work at Willow Creek Inn, formerly The Green Frog, for Mr. & Mrs. Crook. It was an English home-style restaurant specializing in Prime Rib with Yorkshire pudding, to hold the au-jus. He started reading The Shoes of the Fisherman.
5: Lionel Gray (1935-) 's 29th birthday.
16: Grandma Sadie Gray's 68th birthday.

July-

17: Cecilia Gray's 22nd birthday.

August-

Cecilia and Bobby took a cross-country trip to Cullman, Alabama in her new car. Cecilia had been hired to teach Home Economics and run a student home project. The girl students were having a blast listening to the new Supremes singing group. The Supremes with Diana Ross had made a big success with their songs, Baby Love and Where Did Our Love Go?. Bobby stopped at his alma mater, St. John's Seminary in San Antonio. He also had a discussion with Fr. Roper, a new Claretian at Sacred Heart, in Prescott, when he returned.

September-

Bobby Gray took a bus trip cross-country, stopping for a time in Denver, to see the Italian film Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; in Kansas he went to the main office of People to People and saw the Art Museum, where there were some statues by Rodin; and ending up in Derby New York at the Queen of Apostles Seminary. The Pauline Priests had advertised their mission to do work in publishing and motion pictures, so Bobby gave it a try. His friends were Richard Caniglia and Arthur Hastings (Art was stylish and wore the new Beatle boots and clothes, and suits with Nehru Jackets, which he would lend us. Not just black pants and white shirts here).

October-

31: The weather was too cold and Bobby was disillusioned, so he left the seminary and went to East Saint Louis for the remainder of the semester.

November-

Marian Claussen took Bobby to the Art Museum in Saint Louis. She wondered why anybody would vote for Barry Goldwater for President.
Barry Goldwater (-1998) lost the election to Lyndon Baines Johnson. Hubert Humphrey was his vice-president.
Thanksgiving. Fred and Vera Niemann took Bobby to dinner at the Hotel in downtown Belleville.

December-

Bill and Pat Niemann came to Prescott from Tucson where he had been stationed by the USAF, with their new son, Sandor Shawn.
24: Christmas eve, Bobby went to Mass at Saint Cyril's Church with Grandma Gray and Darlene and Chink Roush and family.
25: Bobby Gray spent Christmas with Grandma Gray, stayed with Darlene and Chink Roush.

1965

Bob Dylan became the rage in popular music
with his song, Like a Rolling Stone-
and the surrealistic poetry of his album, Highway 61 Revisited.

Dylan stunned the audiences at the Newport Folk Festival
when he came on stage with a rock-and-roll ensemble,
and started playing electric guitar. He was almost booed off the stage.

January-

Bob Gray returned to ASU, having been reinstated on academic probation, and lived in Irish Hall C wing with his roommate, Joe Stephens.
Bob took Introduction to Oil Painting, American Literature, and a Life Drawing class. One of the models brought in a new album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Suzie Creamchese, What's Happening, Baby?
Bobby flunked Anthropology.
The new Grady Gammage Auditorium opened with West Side Story starring Ron Druse's brother as Tony. Fereydoun Ave was in a Shakespeare play, and had an apartment near Cosner Auditorium.
In early January Sir Winston Churchill suffered a stroke which his physician, Lord Moran, informed the family would probably be fatal.
24: Winston Churchill died at 90 yrs.

February-

Bob Gray Sr. took his family to The Sound of Music movie, starring Julie Andrews as Maria. When it opened in Phoenix, Bobby met the family at the theatre.
2: Vincent Gray's 17th birthday.
27: Bobby Gray's 20th birthday; Sara Louise Gray's 12th birthday.

March-

Robert E. Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio, TX, gave the invocation at the inauguration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Washington, DC.
3: Ash Wednesday.
7: Terry Gray's 2nd birthday.
11: Memorial Grandpa Rob Gray (1896-1963) 's (69th) birthday.
22: Timothy Gray (1956-) 's 9th birthday.

April-

18: Easter.
29: Daniel O'Connor was born.

May-

Bob Dylan toured England.
7: Thomas Gray (1967-) 's 8th birthday.
Simon and Garfunkel from New York City become popular with the surrealist song, The Sound of Silence;
Bobby Gray worked for Bob and Dorothy Ballard at the new restaurant of the Mission Inn, called The Charcoal Room. He took over the management of the motel when they went on a weekend vacation.
Bob got a job on the assembly line at the new Emerson Electric plant by the Prescott Airport. He told David Salazar and Frank Brambila and they got on the night shift.

June-

14: Grandma Sadie Gray (1896-)'s 69th birthday.
Cecilia drove from Manhattan, Kansas, to East St. Louis, Illinois, and picked up her Grandma Gray and brought her to Prescott, Arizona for a visit.
Glenna (Claussen) Weber graduated from SIU Edwardsville.
Father Hargraves helped Glenna get an annulment of her marriage to Bob Blair.
Her parents, Marian and Glen Claussen had their marriage solemnized at the Catholic Church in Columbia, IL.
18: Dale Glen Claussen's 13th birthday.
22: Cletus was adopted by Paul and Linda Winkelmann
27: Brian Gray (1959-)'s 6th birthday.


July-

12: Jerry Nieman (1945-)'s 20th birthday.
17: Cecilia Gray (1942-)'s 23rd birthday.
Glenna (Claussen) Blair married Bill Weber in a civil ceremony, later solemnized in church.
Bob Gray started dating Diane "Marty" Zabriskie, and they went to dances at Yavapai County Youth Center, where a local band called the Shekels played Beatles songs and other pop tunes. Ray Hopf, and the Conrad brothers, Francisco "Checko" and Nick, all from Saint Joseph's Academy, were members of the band. Cathy Shumway was dating one of the Hopf brothers, and Frank Brambila was dating Margaret Rodarte.
25: Pope Paul VI spoke at the United Nations in NYC.


August-

3: Sandor Shawn Niemann was born to Bill and Pat (Parker) Niemann, in Tucson, Arizona.
30: Ceil and Bob Gray's 24th wedding anniversary.

September-

Cecilia Gray returned to San Antonio, Texas and worked as a substitute teacher for 6 months.
Brian Gray went to first grade at Lincoln School. He got upset and kicked and bit the teacher. Tim was in fourth grade, Tom was in third, and Sara Gray, in seventh grade were students at Sacred Heart school.
Bob Gray Jr. continued working at Emerson Electric and did not return to ASU. He went to Saint Joseph's Academy basketball games with Diane Zabriskie and Patricia Rodarte, Margaret's sister, and had a car accident with his brothers in the back seat. His dad, Bob, sent him home to pick up the kids and bring them to the Hassayasmpa Country Club and Bobby ran into a tree with the Plymouth station wagon near the driveway of the house on Norris Rd. The boys had stitches.
11: Ceil Gray's 45th birthday.
The Beatles made their second movie, Help!!
Bob Gray painted a faceless Crucifixion of Joe on a telephone pole, with guitar, and gray sweatshirts of Bob Dylan and Sonny and Cher.

October-

1: Christine Marie Gray (1961-) 's 4th birthday, Prescott, Arizona;
Ken Halbrook's 11th birthday, East St. Louis, IL.
18-year-old P.F. Sloan wrote
...You don't believe, we're on the Eve of Destruction...
, song, sung by Barry McGuire...
protest song trend continues, and folk-rock became a form of social protest.
8: Grandma Sadie Belle (Flood) Gray died in East Saint Louis.
Cecilia Gray came to the funeral from San Antonio, Texas, and joined her dad, Bob Gray. Ceil, his wife, stayed home with all the children.

November-

Sonny and Cher released their first album, and their song, I Got You Babe sold 3 million copies in 3 weeks.
The Byrds did a Rock version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man- and The Turtles group sang Dylan's It Ain't Me, Babe. Cher also released a solo album and sang some folk-rock, doing It Ain't Me, Babe, and All I Really Want to Do.
Van Morrison and Them sang Here Comes the Night and Gloria.
2: Norman Morrison set himself aflame to protest the Vietnam War, in front of McNamara's office at the Pentagon, during rush hour.

December-

4: Bob Gray's 48th birthday.
8: End of Vatican II.
The Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) had its name changed to The Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
Bucky Flynn had a Christmas party and introduced the partygoers to the Beatles' new album, Rubber Soul.
Pat and Bill Niemann, USAF, who was stationed in Tucson, brought their new son, Sandor Shawn, to Prescott to see Bill's Godmother, Ceil, and the Gray Family in Prescott.
24: There was a fire at Saint Philip's Church in East Saint Louis, IL. Darlene (Gray) Roush saw the steeple burning.
Bobby Gray bought colorful sweatshirts for his brothers and gifts for the family.
Cecilia Gray wrote her master's thesis on Older sisters as role models.
Before she obtained her master's degree at Manhattan, Kansas, she was hired to teach at Sacramento State University, CA., now CSUS. But first, she returned to teach at Cullman, Alabama.
Donovan Leitch sang Catch the Wind.

1968

February 6: Santa Scorese was born at Bari in the diocese of Bari-Bitonto. She died on the 15th of March in 1991 at Bari in praestitio castitatis.
Norman Mailer (1923-) won his first Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night His second was for The Executioner's Song.

1969

June-

19: Francesco Mottola (1901-69), a priest of the diocese of Tropea and founder of Oblate del Sacro Cuore/Oblates of the Sacred Blood died at Tropea, Catanzaro.

1972: July-

2: �ngel Riesco Carbajo (1902-72), auxiliary bishop of Astorga and founder of Misioneras Apostolicas de la Caridad/Missionary Apostles of Charity died at La Ba�eza.

Bob left for Arizona to check out the job opportunities for a few days. Before his flight, he stopped by the seminary and took Bobby out of school one morning, and they went and had a businessmen's lunch at a hotel in downtown San Antonio. Bob told Bobby that he might move the family to AZ>