Sylvia George Laing - By Porter Andrew Laing

Sylvia is my grandma.

Main

Birth

July 1, 1952

Started 1st Grade

1958 - 1959

3rd Grade

1960 - 1962

Grandma Laing repeated third grade. In her day school retained students if they struggled. Now school mostly do social promotion.

12th grade

1970 - 1971

Married

Jan 7, 1972

1st child born

September 29, 1972

3rd child born

Dec 7, 1975

My dad is born

Started Marsyl Buisness

1980 - 1998

The building that is now the Boys and Girls club was built by my grandparents. That is where Marsyl was.

1st grandchild born

April 24, 1989

Now

2013

What was happening in the world?

The U.S.A. Test Hydrogen Bomb

1952

First Nuclear Power Plant.

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Fist Astronauts on the Moon

1969

President Nixon Visits China

1972

Viking sends close up pictures of Mars

1975

Reagan survives assassination attempt.

1981

USSR and US sign a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

1989

Obama was reelected as President of U.S.A.

2012