In today's digital age, you never know what you might find with a simple Google search. For another post (Zada's Graduation) I entered in "North Sanpete High School 1936" and some images came up. The yearbook page featured above was 1931, not 1936 but ... even in the small search image I thought the person in the top/right looked familiar. It's Grandpa Rex in his junior year at high school (the same school Grandma Zada went to four years later. This was featured on a Mt. Pleasant blog.
If you think Grandpa Rex looks young - you are right! Mom remembers "My dad was very smart in school and skipped a grade because of that. So he graduated from High School at age 16, as I remember----I haven't done the math. I think he said he only weighed 120 lbs when he graduated--so was young and small." From Grandpa Rex's own history, he wrote ...
I recall that bout a month after I started my fourth grade of school, two other kids and myself were called into the principal’s office. We were all wondering what we had done wrong. We were told that we were promoted to the fifth grade. As I have looked back to that time, I have often wondered if it was a good thing. I was small for my age anyway and shy. Being with older student all my school life, I have never received any exposure to social life while in school.
I adore these older yearbook pages that feature a quote or other information along with the school picture. I remember when I found a year book page for Grandma Lucille (1929) and the included quotes/text. So in addition to the page featuring Grandpa Rex, I'm including the other pages, the other students in his class (76 are indicated here). It's fun to see the different hairstyles, clothes, poses and things they wrote to be remembered by ...
Check out some of Dad/Lamar's yearbook pages too!
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