Genealogy Jottings

Last winter we sold the family home, and I saved several boxes of things to sort later. As I unpacked one recently, I discovered my dad’s Loveland High School year books from World War II. I thought I would see only his school photos inside, but I found much more. One especially interesting page described school being dismissed for days at a time during the labor shortage in 1942. Students worked in the sugar beet fields to help with the harvest. That explains the photo I found several years ago of Dad in the beet field! He had never mentioned working as farm labor so I had no context for the picture. Yearbooks can provide some interesting details on a person’s life, especially if one participated in school activities.