Thumper
12-13-2015, 08:18 PM
I had a set of 4 yearbooks (1951-1954) from a small college in Tennessee that I'd picked up at a local estate sale. The 1954 book sold immediately, a while back, so all I had listed were the '51 - '53 books. Saturday morning I received an email from a guy who gave me a name and asked if I'd mind checking to see if the name was listed in any of them. He explained it was his mother and she went to school there, but he wasn't sure what year she graduated. He said she died at a very young age and he was trying to learn more about her. I found her photo as a Senior in the 1953 book and also as a Sophomore in the 1951 book. I took pics of the pages her photos were on and emailed them to him. He was extremely happy, said he'd never seen either of those photos before and said he'd like to purchase both books (I shipped them yesterday afternoon).
I told him it was odd she wasn't pictured in the '52 book, but mentioned she may have just been absent the day yearbook photos were taken and missed out. The books all mentioned which Seniors were not pictured, but no mention was made of the lower classmen who weren't pictured. He said that'll just give him something to research further. It'll probably always be a mystery, but it was really cool to be able to help him out, building the story about his mother whom he never got to know very well.
I told him it was odd she wasn't pictured in the '52 book, but mentioned she may have just been absent the day yearbook photos were taken and missed out. The books all mentioned which Seniors were not pictured, but no mention was made of the lower classmen who weren't pictured. He said that'll just give him something to research further. It'll probably always be a mystery, but it was really cool to be able to help him out, building the story about his mother whom he never got to know very well.