Scott aged 21

Zelda aged 18

Scott is transferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia.

Zelda graduates from Sidney Lanier High School having been voted "Prettiest" and Most Attractive" girl in her class.

Scott reports to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama.

Scott and Zelda meet at a Montgomery Country Club dance.

The Romantic Egoist, is rejected by Charles Scribner's but in the rejection letter it was praised by editor Maxwell Perkins.

Charles Scribner's declines revised typescript of The Romantic Egoist.

Scott's regiment is shipped north to Camp Mills, Long Island, to await embarkation. The war ends before the unit is sent overseas.

Scott's unit is ordered back to Camp Sheridan, where be becomes aide-de-camp to Brigadier General J. A. Ryan.

The Catholic priest Father Cyril Webster Sigourney Fay dies. Scott writes to Shane Leslie "I can't tell you how I feel about the Monsignor Fay's death - He was the best friend I had in the world."

Scott and Zelda are informally engaged. Scott was later to state that he “fell in love with a whirlwind.�