# Do you still have any of your high school yearbooks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 17, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071 "2020-02-17T09:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/21 "2020-02-17T15:09:15Z")
“Maybe, somewhere” should be one of the poll options. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/22 "2020-02-17T15:11:42Z")
Yep. In fact I just recently used one to send a picture to my friend of an old classmate we were talking about but she couldn’t remember what the girl looked like. [Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com) just added a Yearbook feature to their site, and for one weekend it was free to use for all members (even if you don’t have a current subscription). I had a fun time going through and searching for my mom’s friends and my aunts & uncles, and other people. If you’re ever bored and want to add to the records, upload your yearbooks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/23 "2020-02-17T15:28:27Z")
For reasons I’m not clear on, I only have the yearbooks from my final two years of HS, not the first two. I know exactly where they are and could retrieve them for you in seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/24 "2020-02-17T16:17:32Z")
Yes, do that! And then scan and post your photo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/25 "2020-02-17T16:33:27Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > If you’re interested in seeing your old yearbooks, it’s possible to look them up on a site like [classmates.com](http://classmates.com). [There are some on archive.org, too](https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22School+yearbooks%22). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/26 "2020-02-17T16:54:00Z")
Our high school was so big that only seniors got the yearbook, and there were only pictures of seniors in it. I have that one. I also have my junior high yearbook from 9th grade. Both are easily available, feet from where I’m typing. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/27 "2020-02-17T17:01:48Z")
I’ve kept mine. Many treasured inscriptions in there, including from my HS sweetheart (who is now my wife). Also from a guy who later dated a gal I used to date: “I hope you roast in hell”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/28 "2020-02-17T17:02:32Z")
Class of '69. I still have at least my senior yearbook. I don’t know whether I have now, or ever had, any of the others. I don’t spend any significant time checking it, though. I remember looking up a specific quote in it once, some years ago but after I moved here; so I’m sure it’s in the house someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/29 "2020-02-17T17:03:47Z")
I have 5th - 13th (first year of college), plus my senior year of college. I didn’t realize as a freshman in college that normally only seniors bought the year book. My husband only has his senior year of college. His sister has the one from his senior year in high school. The parents only bought one and she kept it. He’s not really worried about it. And if we did want a copy, we could ask one of of his 45 classmates to scan it. It’s not that big. My year books from 5th and 6th grade are in a box. Can’t tell you why, but probably that’s just where they are, as they are closer to piles of paper, rather than a bound book. I think they are stapled at the spine. The other ones are in the spare bedroom. We put all of our books on Billy (Ikea) shelves. We need more shelves. It’s quite convenient to look up high school classmates, as I hear of their passing. Don’t have a clue about most of my college classmates, even though my class was of a similar size. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/30 "2020-02-17T17:15:29Z")
I still have the yearbook from my senior year of high school (the only one I bought). When I was a freshman, we had an issue with a delay in production of that year’s yearbook (due to the student leader of the yearbook team getting mono), which caused it to be delayed by close to a year. After several years of the yearbook team not being able to catch up, the faculty advisor for the yearbook finally chose the yearbook for my senior year to be the one that would be delayed for some time, to get the regular production of the yearbooks back on track (and they would work on finishing the delayed issue on the side). As a result, I didn’t get my senior yearbook until I was a junior in college. I never bothered to buy a college yearbook – I went to a college with 45,000 students, and I had little interest in buying a book that largely consisted of pictures of people I didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/31 "2020-02-17T17:23:46Z")
I have all three of my high school yearbooks, and all four of my college yearbooks. I went to a very small college. I also have one of the yearbooks from the high school I went to in Montreal before our family moved to Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/32 "2020-02-17T17:42:14Z")
I still have my senior high school yearbook, which is now 57 years old. Back then, nobody but seniors got the yearbooks. I used to have a very extensive collection of yearbooks from Ohio State, since I was one of the editors. I had yearbooks going back to the 19th century. I really don’t know what became of them. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/33 "2020-02-17T18:26:52Z")
I know I still have my senior one on a bookshelf, since it has all my friends’ signatures, and because I worked on it. I think I still have the older ones, but they’re probably in a box somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/34 "2020-02-17T18:27:49Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > If you’re interested in seeing your old yearbooks, it’s possible to look them up on a site like [classmates.com](http://classmates.com). Of course, they won’t include those witty and deathless inscriptions from your BFFs. :rolleyes: Yeah, not really so interested, but thanks. > [@kayT](#): > > I can’t imagine why I would have kept them. My mother kept them and they went in the trash when we were cleaning out mom’s place after she died. I hated high school, never looked at the yearbooks after leaving, and graduation was the happiest day of my life to that point. I did have a college yearbook once and have no idea what happened to it. Can’t remember why I bought it since out of the 22,000 students I probably knew ten, so… I didn’t hate high school, but I was glad to shake the dust of the town off my feet and run off to college. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “Maybe, somewhere” should be one of the poll options. Yeah, that would have been good. Now I guess it would have to go under “something else.” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/35 "2020-02-17T18:40:55Z")
I still have my senior class high school yearbook. Only so I can point to the fading circled photo and say, “I fucking knew Larry would turn out to be a psychopath!” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/36 "2020-02-17T20:13:29Z")
Do they still have autograph books? In elementary school, where we didn’t have a yearbook, and junior high, where there were only home room pictures, no individual ones, you got a book and got people to sign each page with a message. More room than doing it in a yearbook. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Maple_Leaf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/37 "2020-02-17T20:20:12Z")
Yes, I do. However, they are now at my parents’ house in Canada along with almost my whole library and need to be sent to me to the Czech Republic. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/38 "2020-02-17T20:45:10Z")
I still have the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior yearbooks. Class of '68. I very rarely look at them unless I want to see what someone (famous or otherwise interesting) looked like at that age. Still surprises me that I’ve kept any of them- the first three years of High School were a nightmare that I never want to be reminded of. The last year was a lot better but even those memories are bittersweet. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/39 "2020-02-17T21:07:27Z")
This is 40 years. I never got a yearbook. Never attended a class reunion. But I might this year. I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071/40 "2020-02-17T21:12:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I have no idea what exactly happened to mine or when, but I’m pretty sure that, during a period when I was moving around a lot, I junked them rather than keep packing them up and moving them around. > > How about you? If you feel like it, how long has it been since you graduated high school? 52-1/2 years for me. I never bought mine. My argument was that I went to the same high school as my siblings, and we’re all one year apart, so theirs would cover pretty much the same people. Forty years on, two have no idea what happened to theirs and the other threw hers out yesterday (it was water-damaged, which is a family tradition). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-any-of-your-high-school-yearbooks/848071.md?page=3)