> Scenario: a now-deceased relative graduated college in the US > before 1950; unknown major/field. No one seems to remember WHICH > college or university. The jobs he held and from which he retired > would not have required a college degree. Obit appears to have been > written by an in-law and doesn't mention it. > > I surveyed the alumni offices of all the logical (and a few of > less-logical) candidates to no avail. I had thrown up my hands on > this, when I discovered that some college and university alumni > offices do not hold a complete roster of graduates, but only rosters > of those who either donated money or joined the alumni association > (I discovered that by trying to get a current address of a friend > who received his PhD the semester before my husband got his at the > same University). > > The "logical" places were all in his home state (for fairly obvious > financial reasons); the less-so were in nearby states up to 100 > miles away from his home. > > The floor is now open for discussion of methodology for continued > searching. > > Cheryl <singhals@erols.com> Check the local newspapers in the town where he grew up in May or June of the years when he would have been about 22 or 23 years old. If the local boy graduated from college, it probably would have made the local paper. The smaller the place, the more likely that's the case. Ernest Thode ernestthode@charter.net (Ernest Thode)