When I returned home from my father's funeral, I googled his name to see if any information came up that I had been unaware of. I had little success in entering his adult names--Ben and Benjamin Barsel. But then I did a search using the name he went by as a boy and young man--Benny Barsel. And up came a tremendous surprise--a photo of him from his high school year book and the earliest one of him I'd seen.I learned he'd gone to the Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia and that he graduated from there in 1931. Thankfully, a more recent graduate from that same school has put excellent archival material on the web.
Here's the link to the web site: http://www.wwhsalumni.com/1931_roster_pg1.html.
Because the image of my father on the school site was somewhat blurred, I decided to work with it in Photoshop to enhance it for myself. The most successful photo I came up with is the one at the beginning of this posting.
