John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[Jim Hargrove]

Final note... the Beauregard JHS record shows for the 54-55 school year - 9th grade - 12 absences and 168 days "Re Ad" which was defined by Asst Principal HEAD as the # of days the student attends.
Add them together to get the 180 day school year.

Two lines above we have 89 + 1 day absent for the FIRST TERM of 53-54... with yet another line below that with 90 + 4 days absent for the SPRING term for a total comined year of 184 school days.

According the the NYC school records LEE OSWALD attended PS44 from 9/14/53 until 1/8/54.

Nice trick!

JA said someone was arguing that the days listed under "Re Ad" on the Beauregard JHS records really meant number of total school days in the semester/year, not the number of days a kid was present.

Doesn't make sense, though, if you look at the "Re Ad" total for the 1954-55 school year, which is 168, two days less than the minimum 170 day school year mandated by Louisiana law.

I've altered the Early Years write-up on the website a bit, highlighting just the 53-54 fall semester lines on the PS 44 and Beauregard records hoping to make this conflict clearer.

Jim