White Pine County High School Yearbooks

The group at ancestry.com have collected scanned yearbooks from White Pine County High School.  They have yearbooks from 1917 to 1949 (though with gaps).  If you have an ancestry account set up (or can get access through your local library), here's a link to their collection.

I have tried to go through looking for the children of (1) Sophia and Joseph Klaich, and (2) Mildred and Andrew Klaich.  Here's the years where I found information:

Children of Sophia and Joseph Klaich

• Nikola (b. 1907): Died in early childhood
• Mary (b. 1908): Not found in any yearbooks
• Mildred (b. 1909): Not found in any yearbooks
• Eli (b. 1913): Not found in any yearbooks
• Dragica (b. 1914): Died in early childhood
• Mellini, a.k.a. Smiley (b. 1916): 1931, 1932, 1933 [the 1934 yearbook is not online]
• Nick (b. 1918): 1933, 1935, 1936 [the 1934 yearbook is not online]

Children of Mildred and Andrew Klaich

• Mike (b. 1923): 1939, 1942 [the 1940 and 1941 yearbooks are not online]
• Mildred (b. 1925): 1942, 1943 [the 1940 and 1941 yearbooks are not online]
• Alexandra (b. 1926): 1942, 1943, 1944 [the 1941 yearbook is not online]
• George (b. 1927): 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
• Robert (b. 1929): 1944, 1945 1946, 1947
• Angela  (b. 1938): Yearbooks from 1950s are not online

I saved copies of all the yearbook pages with one of these family members.  I will share what I found in separate posts (which you can go to directly by clicking on their names above).

Even from this information, one significant thing emerges: Not everyone graduated from high school (or at least in the traditional manner). It looks like Smiley and Nick may have been the only two to graduate from high school in their family.  In that sense, Smiley was an educational pioneer for the family!

Mildred married (too) young so it is not surprising that she didn't go to high school, but I also have not found any record of either Mary or Eli going to high school. This matches (mostly) with the information in the 1940 census.  One thing I could not reconcile is that Eli said that he had gone to two years of high school.  If so, he didn't show up in any of the yearbooks I looked in.

Finally, here are some pictures of the high school building over the years as taken from the yearbooks:

1917, p. 10

1930, p. 11

1944

1949

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