The call for submissions to the 55th Carnival of Genealogy has been announced and the topic is Show & Tell! Participants are charged with sharing an “…heirloom, a special photo, a valuable document, or a significant person that is a very special part of your family history.”
To this end, I’d like to share this picture of my grandmother, Alice Elizabeth McNair as part of her high school graduating class. To accompany the picture, I also have her original commencement program as well! These two are part of my treasures because of the fact that I have a photo and the program.
My grandmother is pictured 2nd from the left in the front row of girls; as the picture shows, there were 13 graduating members. Last year, I made contact with a distant cousin of my grandmother’s who is also related to one of the other girls graduating that year. I’m not sure which one she is, but the cousin informed me that the girl had passed only a few months prior to us talking. I was able to send her copies of this photo and the commencement program for her to share with my grandmother’s deceased classmate’s children.
The high school my grandmother graduated from was Plymouth Colored High School in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. I am pretty sure that somewhere, I have her diploma as well (or, my mother has it).
Beautiful!
Great picture. It’s posted on a lovely page. If that’s your scrapbook work, you did a great job.
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