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Future Farmer: 1943

February 1943. "Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowski, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm of which five acres are cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

February 1943. "Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowski, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm of which five acres are cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

 

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He's a handsome young man, setting out to make the world a better place. But my attention keeps drifting up to the War Bonds poster, where two thumbtacks have been removed from the corners (you can see the pin holes), leaving them to curl. And for God's sake -- would someone please fix that curtain rod!

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"Bob was an avid photographer his entire life"

Thanks AxelK. I wonder if Bob and Jack discussed photography during their photographic encounter in February 1943.

1925-2017

A veteran, a fellow of mechanical aptitude, law enforcement officer, and family man, as reported in the Wisconsin State Police Quarterly Alumni Newsletter for December 2017:

Robert A. Janowski Sr., age 92, of Hayward, WI died Friday, October 20, 2017 at Country Terrace in Hayward. Robert Arthur Janowski was born January 10, 1925 in Des Plaines, IL to Stanley and Alma (Prohl) Janowski, the third of four children. In 1937, the family moved to Loretta, WI and a new home on Blaisdell Lake. Bob finished his schooling at the Draper school, graduating from high school in 1942. After high school, Bob worked in Hartland and Oconomowoc. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1945 to 1946, and after his discharge moved to Milwaukee, where he found employment. He worked at American Motors, Milwaukee Gas Company and Continental Can Company. In 1951, he met Evelyn Spanbauer in Milwaukee and they were married in Rockford, IL on January 5, 1952. They resided in Milwaukee and Grafton, WI until 1961 when Bob joined the Wisconsin State Patrol. They relocated to Beloit, WI and lived there until their retirement in 1982. Bob and Evie then moved to Winter, WI and built a new home on Highway G. Bob was an avid photographer his entire life, as well as a craftsman, building wood furniture including a beautiful pool table for his son.

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