High School Graduation 1949 - Sepia Saturday 687

In my dad's photo album there are some photos of his teachers and classmates from his "Upper Secondary" or "Senior High"  school. (Back then called 'Läroverket' in Swedish.) I assume probably he probably took these photos himself during the last term before his graduation (spring 1949). (The high school graduation both back then and still today called 'studenten' in Swedish.)

The photos are rather blurry, and the prints very small and firmly glued onto the album pages; but I did my best to copy them with my camera, and then edited and arranged them into two collages (one for each album page). I'll not bother about the teachers' names, just what subjects they were teaching. I think the photos in themselves kind of reflect the "good old school days" (hm...) rather well - a rather more formal atmosphere than nowadays reflected in how both teachers and students dressed, etc.

1/ Headmaster 
(The girl is probably a student)

2/ Swedish 

3/ Geography 

4/ Christianity 

5/ Drawing

1/ Mathematics,  2-5/ Chemistry/Science

Graduation photo (taken at home).  No doubt not only his parents but also extended family were very proud of him on this day - the first in the family to graduate from secondary school. (And he would also be going on from there to technical college to become an engineer). 

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School Days - Sepia Saturday 684

  

For this Saturday, and the August theme of School Days, I'm presenting two photos from my dad's primary/elementary school years. I know that at least for the first three years he went to a small school only a very short way from home, and the kind of school where grades 1-3 were taught together in one group (because there weren't all that many pupils). Whether they also taught grade 4-6 in the same building, or if he then had to go to a different school up in the main village, I'm not sure. In his teens, he went on to attend a secondary school in town, and then I assume he probably commuted by train, into town, as there was a train stop very close to their house. (The trains back then used to make several stops between the railway stations in the village /Fristad/ and that in town /Borås/.)

Anyway, these photos are from Dad's photo album, and according to his own notes, the first photo is from småskolan (first three years of primary/elementary school), and the second photo is from what he calls folkskolan (by which he probably means the next three years). 

Från småskolan ...

 

... och  Folkskolan

One or two readers with extraordinarily good memory may recognise my dad by now - but for the rest of you, the clue is that he's the only one wearing glasses - and also (again) very serious-looking... ;-) (Further clue: You'll find him in the middle of the 1st photo, and bottom right in the 2nd.)

As the school theme is going to continue through August, I may be back with some more photos from his secondary school years in another post. (Next week I'll hopefully I'll be off on a mini holiday for a couple of days, though, so will probably be skipping No 685.)

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