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Yearbook Themes

Prompt: Yearbook Themes.
What was your yearbook theme in high school?
Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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In my school, we didn't care much for yearbooks. Although there was a student committee for each year's yearbook, their decisions were dominated by the teachers. I've heard that in some other schools, this was totally in the hands of students. Lucky people!

I graduated from a private high school in 1961 called, American Academy for Girls. It is a miracle that I remember anything about it, today. So, here's a part of that miracle which I could recall: School motto, "Alma Mater, Siempre" meaning, "Dear Mother, Always." "Mother" was the school. The year I graduated they added "going ahead" to "always" and made it the year's theme for the yearbook.

What happened to the yearbooks of other schools, who knows! Yearbooks never interested me. Only because what is said in them are others' opinions, mostly incomplete, faulty or wrong.

Most yearbooks might have evolved to more than simple collections of photographs and names and what the administration wanted to keep for its students' achievements. Since I have seen a few of the much earlier yearbooks of my family members, I don't remember any yearbook themes in them. So, my guess is, possibly, yearbook themes were born during the late 1950s or so.

If yearbooks are around to create a sense of unity and identity within the school community, I hope they may succeed. So far that I know, most of my classmates have scattered all over the country and the world, and only a few have stayed in touch. My closest high-school friends and I met several times in the following years to stay in touch, but life has a way of separating and alienating people, and so far, I know of only one friend who is still alive.

Yet, with my friends in college, we're still in touch and that's a true blessing.