Charles Shulz, high school yearbook photo, class of 1940
Charles Monroe Schulz loved to draw. He was good at at, too. Already one of the brighter kids at Central High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Shulz skipped two half-grades graduating youngest member of his class, in 1940. Already a shy boy, rapid academic advancement did little to help his social life.
In those days, the family owned a hunting dog. “Spike” had a number of cringe-worthy habits, including eating sharp objects. It didn’t seem to bother him much, and the boy sent a drawing to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The magazine ran it, complete with a description of ol’ Spike’s more unusual predilections.
The drawing was signed, “Sparky”.
Even with Schulz later celebrity, you could always weed out those who merely claimed to know the man, as opposed to those who did. If 
they called him “Charles”, or “Chuck”…
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