{"id":12991,"date":"2026-03-09T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:19:32","slug":"1929-chesbronian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12991","title":{"rendered":"1929 Chesbronian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12992\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12992\" src=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929-400x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929-400x222.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929-730x405.jpg 730w, https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chesbronian-1929.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is always one unusual student like the one on the top of the sign.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week I scanned another year for Chesbrough Seminary or what is now known as Roberts Wesleyan University. It is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mcnygenealogy.com\/book\/chesbronian-1929.pdf\"><i>The 1929 Chesbronian<\/i><\/a><\/strong>. At that time it is a two year college so the students in the graduating class are called Sophomores. They had 18 graduates but two of them don&#8217;t have a picture. There are pictures for all 25 Freshmen. Most of the students are from Monroe County. It also looks like most of the students plan to go on to another college.<\/p>\n<p>The school also ran a High School and there individual pictures of their seniors and juniors. There is also a group photo of 9 students labeled &#8220;Junior High.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a small yearbook with just 78 pages. I picked this one because I am working on a 400+ page book for next week and I needed to get a head start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I scanned another year for Chesbrough Seminary or what is now known as Roberts Wesleyan University. It is The 1929 Chesbronian. At that time it is a two year college so the students in the graduating class are called Sophomores. They had 18 graduates but two of them don&#8217;t have a picture. There &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;1929 Chesbronian&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yearbooks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}