Small World Part II

Last June I wrote about becoming friends, through golf, with a woman and that we learned, after a dinner with lots of yakking and wine, that our parents both grew up in Bessemer, PA around the same time.  Recently, she found some yearbooks that belonged to her uncle and brought them to me.  I was able to find my Dad, aunts and an uncle in the yearbooks.  My Dad did not finish high school there because his family moved to North Lima, Ohio but I found his tenth grade class photo.  What was really fun to learn, was that one aunt was Valedictorian, my Dad was his class President and all siblings had scored as top three students in "mental ability exams."  No surprises.  We knew they were all wicked smart.  As a side note, my friend and I now teasingly call each other "cousin".  Her mom was best friends with one of my Dad's cousins.  I have to dig out the family tree.  And what is really funny, is that we are both as identically ditsy as they come.

Our Uncle Gerald, at the bottom, was faculty.  Three other siblings, my Aunt Betty, Uncle Lester and Uncle Clifford were not in these volumes.