High school yearbook

Grampa Don

Grampa Don

Yep, that's me
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Orange county, Calif.
I dug out my high school senior yearbook today, the Volsung. Our mascot was a Viking. It made me a little melancholy. I looked at all those young faces and realized that they are all 80 years old now if they are still alive, and many probably aren’t. I know that one of my best friends in school has passed on.

Memories came back, some good, some so so. I didn’t love school, but I didn’t hate it either. I was one of the background kids, kind of supporting actors. A lot of us were. The A list kids were sports stars, cheer leaders, student government and active in a lot of clubs. As an introvert, I was not one of them.

But, I had a few good friends, and I hope life went well for them. There were 50 and 60 year reunions, but I didn’t attend. I suspect it was mostly the A listers.

The book is filled with signatures, many I no longer recognize, and comments like "best of luck to a nice guy" and "cross over the road and jump the hedge, remember the guy who signed the edge." Such an innocent time, not a single swear word.

Did you keep your yearbooks?

Don
 

don't have one, located a old classmate in dallas 20+ years ago, he had a yearbook, recognized 20 or so classmates out of a hundred+, they looked so young.
Can't locate him, wanted to view it again...darn the years spin!
 

I have yearbooks from my junior and senior years. Our 60th reunion was held last month but I couldn't make it because my wife isn't able to go and can't be left alone. Besides my best friend, who I went to 50th and 55th with, and his wife both died since the last one.

@jerry r. garner you can probably get a reprint of your yearbook. Just google your high school and yearbook and the year you graduated.
 
I have my old yearbooks from 1958-1960, and look at them a couple of times a year. I attended the 50th reunion in 2010, and was pleasantly surprised at how many showed up. I got a list of names and e-mail addresses at that reunion, and have kept in touch with a half dozen of the "survivors", but over the past decade, only a couple of the old crew are still around.
 
Times were hard, money was tight, so I could only afford to put out the $5 bucks for a yearbook once, which was in my senior year. And I left it at a friend's parents house in 1967 went I moved away to college because my mom and dad were dead and there was nowhere else to leave it. That was the last time I saw it. But being a shy introvert my name and picture was only in it in one place and only about 4 people total wrote in it, so it wasn't a big loss.

Plus the dude in charge of our reunion website uploaded all the senior pictures on to the net. Hell I'm better looking now than I was back then. :)

And there's this place on the web that will sell me a reprint of it for about $100 bucks if I wanted one.
 
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Yes, I have 9th & 12th grades. A Jr. High friend became a US Senator. He was a nice boy, can't figure out what happened! 😁
 
I don't have my high school yr book
Our graduating class '72 was big 1,000 kids.I came to the school in my junior yr not making many friends because I was really shy back then.The only kids I knew well were in homeroom class
I do have my college yearbook
 
I have all four of mine. I was on the year book staff all the way through high school and the editor my senior year.

I always had a key to the yearbook office and it really came in handy. It was always a great place to sneak off to with my boyfriend and make out at lunch time.
 

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