Class,
1941-42
First
and second grade classes pose for the camera. These students lived through the
end of the Great Depression and would also live through the Second War World.
Some would see their brothers, and possibly their fathers, going off to war
as the drafting of fathers started in August of 1943. Salvage drives, rations
books, blackouts, and other war time home front activities would become part
of their young daily lives.
Clarence D. Stephenson, Indiana County, 175th Anniversary History,
vol. 2
(Indiana, Pennsylvania: Halldin Publishing, Company, 1989), 564.
Photo: courtesy Indiana
Gazette, 22 November 1992, Indiana, Pennsylvania.