It must have been around 1960-61 (as I was born in '62) and Jessie Lou, dutiful daughter of a Navy Officer, Albert John Peloquin, was working at the Enlisted Men's Club as a server at a function. There, behind the punch, she stood with a view of the entry door. In walks a short, handsome young man who is commanding the attention and giddyness of the girls next to her. "Oooh, It's Teddy!", says her friend.
"What's a 'Teddy'?" she asked. Later, she would tell me she had no idea what he was ... she thought he should have a red dot in his forehead. But did he ever have charisma. She began to feel a great tension as he approached. She said he made her uncomfortable, the way he stared at her. She told her friend, "If he thinks he's coming up to ME ... huh!"
He did.
He looked right at her and spoke in his unknown accent.
"May I hab dis dance?" he asked as he looked at her and put out his hand TO HER FRIEND!
Well, he made a lasting impression and the rest, as they say, is history....
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