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Back in the 50s in our one-room country school, Valentine's Day rules were simple: Everyone gave everyone else a valentine. No favorites, no omissions, no exceptions. Anyone skipping a classmate would be shamed. The only discretion you had with your dime store Valentines was to reserve the nicest ones for the nicest classmates when you were licking your envelopes for the Big Event.
So every Valentine's Day school work stopped long enough for our exchange. If there were 20 students that year, 400 valentines would be exchanged.
It was a pile of mail. I supposed most of us pitched the cards in a month or so. Most of us.
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| Lorlee |
Not Lorlee Bartos. She saves stuff like this. Here's the proof. Recently she sent us photos of the valentines that Stan and Solveig gave her about 1955. Here they are.
She didn't send us the originals, of course. She's saving those.
Happy Valentine's Day, Lorlee!
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| Oak Grove Country School. Before they added the fire escape door in the rear. |
