Dad's graduation

This is a picture of my dad at the age of eighteen.  He graduated from high school in Nashwauk, Minnesota in 1935.  He always said that he really felt like a graduate of Renville High School, instead, because he was a student in Renville through the first half of his senior year and all of his friends were there, too.  Then, in January,  his family moved from southern Minnesota up to the Iron Range.  He didn't want to move but he had to so he made the best of it.  I believe this experience led him as an adult to stay put in the community we (his kids) grew up in.  We stayed in the same school system the entire time we were in school.  That's a promise kept.  Thanks, Pop!  p.s. By the way, the following picture of me is downright spooky.  I'm leaving it in the blog anyway.  hahaha