I didn’t want to hold this photo for Wordless Wednesday since I felt it needed an explanation. I would really like to find the family of this woman so they can have the photo and accompanying certificate. I found this in an antique shop in McDonough, Georgia.
The envelope that the picture is housed in has the photography studio name of Apeda N.Y. on the outside. Someone wrote in the top left corner of the front “High School Graduation”.
Inside is a picture of a young woman in a graduation gown and mortarboard with tassel. Below the photo is “Portrait by Apeda Studio, N.Y.
When I went to take the photo out of the envelope imagine my surprise to find a Certificate of Merit! The certificate is from Abraham Lincoln Junior High School and is awarded to Gloria Allen. The principal signed, or more likely had a stamp with his signature, but I can’t make out the name. I’m thinking it is possibly “Wm C Davis”, but I just don’t know. The certificate is dated June 1941.
If the photo is Gloria Allen then, putting the certificate for her 8th grade year (it might be 7th grade, but we will go with 8th grade for this purpose) then her high school graduation year would have been 1945. Her birth year would be around 1927. Does anyone out there know her?
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