Chronology

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1911
The Calders move to Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Calder has a cellar for his workshop. He attends Croton Public School. (Calder 1966, 28-29)
1912
The Calders move to Spuyten Duyvil, New York. The cellar becomes Calder's workshop. Calder and Peggy attend Yonkers High School. Stirling rents a studio in New York City on 51 West Tenth Street. (Calder 1966, 34-35)
14 August: Stirling is appointed acting chief, Department of Sculpture, of the "Panama-Pacific International Exposition" in San Francisco. Stirling writes the introduction to The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition, published in 1915. (Calder 1966, 36)
1913
June: The Calders move to San Francisco. Calder has a workshop in the cellar and attends Lowell High School. (Calder 1966, 36-37; Hayes 1977, 43-44)
1915
Spring: Stirling and Nanette move to Berkeley to be near his next commission, the Oakland Auditorium. Calder stays with Walter Bliss, architect, and his wife, to graduate from Lowell High School. (Calder 1966, 37-38; Hayes 1977, 52-53; CF, Calder 1955-1956, 14)
August: The Calders move back to New York City on Claremont Place, Manhattan. (Calder 1966, 39; Hayes 1977, 55)
September: Calder begins his studies at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, where he takes courses which include Chemistry, Mechanical Drawing, Shop Practice, and Surveying, among others. (Calder 1966, 39)
1916
Summer: Calder spends five weeks in the Plattsburg Civilian Military Training Camp, New York, drilling with Company H, Fifth Training Regiment. (Calder 1966, 46)
1918
Fall: Calder joins the Student's Army Training Corps, Naval Section, at Stevens, where he is made guide of the battalion. (Calder 1966, 48)
1919
17 June: Calder graduates from Stevens with a degree in mechanical engineering. (CF, Certificate of Graduation; Lipman 1976, 329)