Chuckie graduated from Beaver High School in Beaver, Pennsylvania in June 1941 when he was 18 years old. Finding his high school yearbook photo was easy. Did you know there is an online searchable database of high school yearbooks? Yeo. And get this – an actual copy of the 1941 yearbook can be purchased right now on Ebay. I know because I looked.

SHINGAS Beaver High School Yearbook 1941

“Shingas”, the name of the Beaver Area High School yearbook, was a Delaware Indian warrior who was the brother of King Beaver, the Indian chief after whom the town was named. Western Pennsylvania has many streets, towns, and roads named after the many famous native Pennsylvania Indian woodland tribes tribes who played a part in the history of what is today the state of Pennsylvania

The indigenous people had occupied the land thousands of years before the first European explorers arrived. The climate, environment, land and natural resources that were available to the Indian tribes in this area resulted in the adoption of the culture shared by the Woodland Indians.

The names of the native Pennsylvania Indian tribes included the Lenapi Delaware, Erie, Honniasont, Iroquois, Saponi, Shawnee, Susquehanna, Tuscarora, Tutelo and Wenrohronon.

We learn in school that the Europeans brought epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, measles and smallpox. The Native Indians of Pennsylvania had not developed immunities against these diseases resulting in huge losses in population.