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Funny, I was just thinking how strange it would be for people to have gotten rid of their yearbooks!
sure I've moved, but even when I had a small apartment, I had my yearbooks and mementos with me. If I didn't have room, I suppose I would have kept them at my parents' house. but I'd never get rid of them.
I have my grandmother's yearbook from 1938. She kept it till she died at 93!
I never liked them, personally thought them a waste of $$$. I never bought any. My older sister kept a huge collection of hers and it's been over fifteen years since she stepped on campus. Looking at her stash I do not regret it at all, even though I'm in the minority. Out of those faces, she speaks to just two (and our HS had four digits of students here in LA!) and the books collect dust.
I graduated in '76 as did my husband. We still have all our yearbooks. My mom still has hers unless she got rid of them when they moved earlier this month.
I don't keep in touch with any of those people really. I went to my 10 and 20 year reunions, but I missed my 30th, because we were moving that weekend. That was probably the last time I talked to anyone I graduated with. Our kids got a big kick out of looking through them.
I think that the people who either never bought yearbooks or who later got rid of them perhaps were not people who were involved in lots of things. I bought the yearbook all 4 years in high school for two reasons: 1. to remember other people and 2. because I was in it, a lot.
I guess if I was one of the kids who maybe just had my one class picture in the yearbook, but wasn't in other activities, I might not care. But most of us were in lots of clubs and teams, plus has random pictures of us and our friends splattered all over the book. Why wouldn't a person want to buy and keep that? Even if I no longer talk to any of those people, I still like looking through it for the memories.
I think that the people who either never bought yearbooks or who later got rid of them perhaps were not people who were involved in lots of things. I bought the yearbook all 4 years in high school for two reasons: 1. to remember other people and 2. because I was in it, a lot.
I guess if I was one of the kids who maybe just had my one class picture in the yearbook, but wasn't in other activities, I might not care. But most of us were in lots of clubs and teams, plus has random pictures of us and our friends splattered all over the book. Why wouldn't a person want to buy and keep that? Even if I no longer talk to any of those people, I still like looking through it for the memories.
I would understand that. We had a student council, and they were pretty much the next best thing after the actual teachers and principals and office receptionists. Every single one of them preordered a yearbook annually, there was no doubt about it. When your face is splattered on at least six different pages in that volume, why would you not? On top of all that, you're the next HS principal.
But most kids I was close to had just one class picture in the yearbook, and the high schools in our area all boasted at least four digits of students (California, notorious for huge class sizes). Just FYI, my sister never looked at them after purchasing or receiving signatures at the end of the school year except maybe one time when we needed to identify someone I met IRL from her graduating class. Memories, to me, were not found in comments on a tacky book ridden with errors but on the actual campuses themselves. Not to mention the people (if they haven't changed for the worse).
Wow! I guess you would not want to know what my class ring cost! 35$ and that was platnium. (the more expensive at that time was gold)
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