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June 25, 2011 — Electronic Calculus, Inc.

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

The other day I introduced you to my Father’s Resume from 1963. At that time, your Great-Grandfather was working at Ammann & Whitney. Some time after that, my Dad got a job at Strobel & Rongved, Consulting Engineers, in New York City (on 41st Street, across the street from the N.Y.C. Main Public Library).

There, my Dad convinced his employers to invest in him, and fund a new venture — Electronic Calculus, Inc.
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June 22, 2011 — My personal military history

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

Yesterday, I won a major battle in court — my client was sued by his former partner, who was demanding approximately $350,000 in damages from my client. I mounted a strong defense, and introduced evidence that supported the fact that it was the former partner who owed my client approximately $100,000. After four days of trial, my adversary informed me that his client is willing to end the litigation if my client agrees to do so also — i.e., the case is over, and both sides just walk away from each other without any money changing hands. This was a MAJOR victory for my client!

All this talk about battle and victory, I thought you may be interested is seeing some documents from my personal military history:
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June 21, 2011 — Niagara Falls

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

Yesterday I introduced you to my Father’s Resume from 1963. In there, it is reported that my Father worked on the “design of reinforced concrete Niagara Overlook Bridge.”
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June 20, 2011 — Your Great-Grandfather Kostro’s Resume

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

I thought you may be interested in seeing your Great-Grandfather Kostro’s Resume from circa [from Latin, meaning “around” ] June 1963 (a Resume is a document that explains your qualifications for work, such as your education, your experience, your publications, the languages you speak, and anything else that may be helpful in evaluating your candidacy for a job you are seeking):
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June 18, 2011 — Your first book

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

William, today is your Three Week Birthday — Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is now 6:07 am, and you were born at 6:02 am — you are getting older by the second.

Out of the photos from your first week of life, one stands out for me — it is the photo of your first book that your Parents bought for you.
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June 17, 2011 — The Knights of the Teutonic Order

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

This is a Family Tree prepared by either my Aunt Teresa (my Father’s sister) or my Babcia Janina (my Father’s mother) — I suspect that it was prepared by your Pra-Pra-Babcia Janina in 1926 — depicting the early history of the Kostro family.

One of the interesting things about this chart is that it shows the Coats of Arms of the persons who married into our Kostro family. You may remember that a Coat of Arms belongs to a clan, and within each clan there may be more than one family. For example, the Kostro family belongs to the Rawicz clan; but within the Rawicz clan there are 460 Polish families — more information is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawa_coat_of_arms.
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