Seventy Years Ago: Photos


My father, Sidney DeVere Brown, age 14, with two 4-H calves in 1939. Photo taken at his parents' farm, in Bloomington, 33 miles east of Wichita, Kansas.


My father's high school graduation picture, 1941, age 16.

Detail from my father's senior class photo, Augusta High School, 1941. He is in the center with the letter vest.


Kappa Rho pep club quartet, Southwestern College, 1943. My father is at right.

Harvesting wheat with a combine, 1946. My uncle is second from the left, sitting on the tractor. My grandfather is second from the right standing at the spout. The others are my Dad's cousins and nephews.

My father as an apprentice seaman, U.S. Navy, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, late August 1943.

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I have about a thousand of my parents' college letters, Navy letters, and love letters from the 1940's. These include letters my father wrote and received when he was at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans. (1941-43, 1946-47), and when he was in the U.S. Navy serving stateside primarily learning Japanese (1943-46), letters my mother sent and received on a church trip in the summer of 1946, and especially letters my mother and father exchanged when they were engaged to marry but living in separate towns in Kansas (June 1947-January 1948). Many of the letters are from my father's family at their farm in Bloomington, Kans. I am reading these letters exactly seventy years after they were written and posting interesting quotes from them once a week or so.

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