Image is from the Birthday boy’s High School Senior picture)

He once asked his parents why,

Sputnik’s importance they passed by…

Mom said, it was you

We were bringing into,

The world and be happy at a baby’s cry!

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–J.E.C.

(The Russian Sputnik was the first satellite in space—launched October 4th, 1957.  My parents had a rather more important–to them– delivery received on that same date!)