Yes, all of them, and it’s been 55 years. No idea why I’ve kept them. I doubt my kids will want them.
If any of you are thinking of disposing of them, your local genealogy society may want them. I found my mother’s photo in her yearbook here in Portland, along with her sister’s.
I had one for my sophomore year of high school, I have that one in a box somewhere. I haven’t looked at it in years. I didn’t get one my junior year, no idea why. My grandmother bought me my senior yearbook but my brother, a year behind me in high school, got off with it when I was in Navy boot camp and I never saw it again. I got some revenge for that, when he got his senior year book, I hid it from him. About 10 years later that year book was found, my younger sister, who was a sophomore in that book, took it as she never got one for that year. She still has it as far as I know.
For anyone who went to school in North Carolina before 1969, there’s a good chance your yearbook has been digitized:
They do colleges, too. After 1969? Just wait. They only do them after 50 years have passed.
I have my junior and senior yearbooks. I almost didn’t get either, because my mother already wrote a check for my younger-by-one-year sister’s yearbook, and she didn’t understand why we might both want one for ourselves. (I had a job my senior year and paid for that one myself.)
My small hometown is about 3000 people. They just got their first decent hotel, like a Fairfield or Courtyard (it’s a GrandStay Hotel). We stayed there for a family event over the summer, and we were surprised that prominently displayed in the lobby, by some comfy chairs, is a whole selection of the town’s high school yearbooks. I asked the front desk clerk about them, and she said that people just LOVE looking through them, even if they’re not from the town. I imagine they get a lot of business for high school reunions, and that the yearbooks are really popular then.
We have a weekend trip to a different GrandStay Hotel this weekend. I’ll have to check it out to see if that’s a corporate thing, or just in that one location.
I was sitting in my den years ago and looked at the book shelf. I thought “Dang, I haven’t looked at those yearbooks in 25 years.” Out they went. No regrets.
Got all my HS yearbooks, all my college yearbooks, and all my grade school report cards. I see I sing off key, at least in the first grade.
Had grades 8-12, grad class of ‘74, threw them out 15 years ago, haven’t missed them.
Just one, from my junior year in high school. It was the fifty-year anniversary of the school which, as you can guess, is much, much older than that now. HS was just the last three years when I was there, and I don’t know why I didn’t bother getting the one for my freshman year. I also didn’t bother getting the one for my senior year, but I have since seen it online and I really didn’t miss anything. The one I did get was for the school’s fiftieth year, so it had a lot of historical trivia that I enjoyed learning about. As you can imagine, the school is much, much older than that now!
I also have the Winter 1923 Los Angeles High School Blue And White Semi-Annual. I love old yearbooks and just picked up that one out of sheer curiosity. An L.A.H.S. physics teacher became the first principal of my HS the following year.
I’m a Yes, all of 'em, also one from 8th grade and an Enterprise Cruise Book from a Western Pacific deployment.
I have mine, grades 9-12 (class of '71) and both of my late parents from the 1930’s. Yeah, I know, pack-rat.
I’ve got one H.S. yearbook that survived packing for our impending move.
Yearbooks are useful for monitoring which of your classmates made it big or wound up incarcerated.
No, I graduated back in 1979 and they disappeared long ago.
I was supposed to get one my senior year but I never picked it up after I found out that some asshole changed the quote that appeared under my picture. Actually, they added a quote where none was supposed to be. I didn’t want a quote because even then I could see how stupid you sound when you’re 18 and think you’re on top of the world.
Unfortunately, I went to a really good school so I don’t even get to have the satisfaction of going back to reunions to see what losers everyone turned out to be. Most everyone is successful, looks good, and is happy (at least outwardly). Goddamn them!
I still have my sophomore and Junior year ones somewhere. My senior yearbook got destroyed by water damage, which makes me sad because I was on the yearbook committee that year and put a lot of work into it. I’ve looked for one on sale online with no success.
Not only do I still have my 30 year old HS yearbook, but I used it as a cite in a recent GQ question!
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