Roosevelt High School Class of '42
Virginia, Minnesota
Rolland Walt, Uncle of Myra Sharon Eder
"Debonair musician and orator"
Wilbert Pontinen, father of Kathleen Hazlett
"Smile-provoking harmonica melodist."
The phrase "small world" fits -- again!
Myra Eder, local writer and blogger, once mentioned in her column that she had roots in Virginia, Minnesota. You can imagine my pleasure to be able to speak with her at the PSC Jazz Festival Friday night. We exchanged a few dates and names and locations and with a little archival digging unearthed this amazing coincidence. Her Uncle Rolland and my dad graduated from the same class. Above are the worse-for-wear yearbook pages and photos from 1942.
I'll be going through the photos from Virginia to post more later.