1995. This is Adam in the middle with his buddies, Jon Martin and Matt Hunt on either side.
Here is what I wrote to my friend, Martha, in Oklahoma at the time this photo was taken:
"Hi Martha,
You asked about Adam so here goes. Adam is nine and in the third grade. He got a new bike for Christmas and it is red and black, his favorite colors. He has already made big plans for the upstairs since he will be the only one up there when Janet goes off to college next year. He plans to call his bedroom the 'East Wing' and her bedroom the 'West Wing'. I don't know how to describe Adam except to say that he is kind of a scientific nerdy-wad that everybody likes. He thinks about the speed of light and square roots and adds up big numbers in his head. He jumps up from the dinner table to look things up in the encyclopedia.
Adam is very picky about food, suspicious of any kind of sauces, and doesn't trust anything that comes out of a crockpot. He likes spaghetti, chili, corn dogs and taco salad. Ketchup is practically a beverage. If a corn dog weighs 4 ounces, it requires 4 ounces of ketchup. Tomatoes are the only vegetable he likes. He likes apples and red Jell-O. Basically he likes mostly red stuff. Frank and I would love to take him to Washington D.C. and just let him pick out the things he would like to see. We are hoping to do that before he gets to the stage that he will not claim us as parents."
Note: The following summer we did take him to D.C. When Janet went off to college he told me he was sad and missed her. I told him she is always with us in our hearts, but he said still, he wished he had a solid molecular structure of her. He's so mushy.
Fast forward 16 years.
Here is Adam getting his PhD. in chemistry.
