Today, Saturday September 7, 2024 there will be a celebration of life for Charles “Chuck” Dickens in Washington. While I am unable to attend, I will be thinking of him. Chuck left a lasting legacy to Lassen Union High School where he graduated in 1950. Some of his surviving classmates are Verna (Fraley) Wemple and Bernice (Taylor) Hagata.

I met Chuck at the Lassen Alumni picnic in 2005. We shared a common goal–we wanted to do something special for the centennial Lassen High graduating Class of 2007. A plan was hatched. We would locate and digitize every yearbook dating back to 1904. The  Class of 2007 would receive the final product on a DVD

It was a daunting task, since the high school never kept a set. My main task was to locate them, wherein Chuck did the “heavy lifting” of scanning. In the Acknowledgements we thanked those who shared their yearbooks. There was a subset group that really never received the praise they deserved. For Chuck it was truly a family affair, with many members assisting. For me, it was friends who gave me the helping hand when I needed it most.

Tim