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His first assignment was a year in the Atlantic Ocean on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Leyte where he got extra pay for flying. This often entailed flying in formation with other aircraft to take photos and make films for publicity for the Navy squadrons.

His second assignment was a couple years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, popularly known today as Gitmo. “Back in 1959 when I was there, our aerial photographies and maps showed that Russia had missiles in Cuba,” said Stan. “We took pictures of them. It was top secret. With infrared film we could tell what was real foliage and what wasn’t and where they tried to hide equipment and missile silos.”

Stan said that the information JFK received for the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Blockade was from his group. Stan was in the Navy from 1957 to 1960. John F. Kennedy was elected to the presidency in 1960, and in 1962 he forced Khrushchev to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba.

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Back on the home front, Jayne was attending high school and anticipating Stan’s return on temporary leave for the junior prom, a totally different venue than Gitmo.

“He was there for the prom but not for my graduation dance,” said Jayne.

“But we communicated all the while I was gone,” said Stan. “We stayed close. There was a ham radio on base and I’d send a letter home to say when I was going to call.”

After Jayne graduated from high school in the spring of 1959, she went to work at the First Edina National Bank located at 50th and France.

When Stan completed his stint in the Navy and returned home in 1960, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota to major in Business Administration. On August 5th, 1961, while still in school, he and Jayne were married at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in St. Louis Park. They had been “going together” for six years.

They drove out to the Black Hills of South Dakota in a “pea soup green” Volks Wagen for their honeymoon. “One of the best cars we ever had,” said Stan.

Where did the newlyweds come to live? “First we rented an apartment in South Minneapolis,” said Jayne, “but children weren’t allowed there.”

“The rent was $77.50 a month,” said Stan. “We had good landlords, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Camp, but they gave us notice when they found out we were going to have a baby. That’s how things were then.”

So they moved to a duplex, also in South Minneapolis, where daughter Beth was born and then, 11 months later, daughter Joanie.

“In 1963 we bought our first home,” said Jayne. “It was down in Eagan Township and that’s where our daughter Kathie was born.” Jayne, a full time stay-at-home mother, had fulfilled her childhood dream in no time at all.

“We had three babies and the oldest was two,” said Stan. “Yikes!”

They lived in their Eagan home almost ten years, until 1972, when they decided to move back “up north” and build a home in the Glen Lake area of Minnetonka. Their new home was on Lake Rose, which was not heavily populated at the time, and they had a large shoreline.

“We loved it and our girls loved it,” said Stan, who told about buying ducks for pets. ‘We bought a dozen of them at a feed store and studied how to take care of them. The girls would whistle for them when it was feeding time and our mallards came to recognize that whistle when they returned from one year to the next, from being south for the winter. We also recognized them as ours because of their markings. Ducks are not identical.”

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