Bernice Chase Noll Growing Up

17. Bernice Noll in Second Grade Class.

Because we rode bicycles to school my mother insisted we wear ugly brown cotton stockings held up by garter belts. I hated them and envied the "town girls" who wore pretty white anklets. Sometimes my sister Gwen and I would stop at the service station halfway to school. In the restroom we would unhook the garter belt and roll down the brown stockings to a big fat roll around our ankles. I'm sure it looked a bit silly but to us it was an improvement.

Guess which one is little Bernice

Second row from bottom fifth from left