1996.123.001

This is a school yearbook used by one Bertha Gerstenberger to catalogue autographs, pictures and other items commemorating her graduation from Lawrence High School in 1927. At the very beginning of the book, Bertha wrote in the class colors at the time (Blue and White) as well as the class flower (Posies). The rest of the book is a collection of names written in by her classmates, along with a few notes, and some of these names have newspaper clippings with photos of the classmate tucked into the book next to their autograph. A few other newspaper clippings litter the inside of the book, all related to L.H.S and the surrounding community in 1927. There is an “In Memoriam” card for one Alice M. McCarthy, an L.H.S teacher, a play program for the L.H.S play “The Goose Hangs High”, and two pictures of the entire basketball squad and football squad from the 1927 graduating class, just to name a few of these clippings. The last dozen pages or so of the book are dedicated to a selection of photos pasted on to the pages, photos of Bertha and her friends after graduation as well as in front of her house and at a place she titled “Little Island Pond”. An entire list, ripped right from a newspaper, of the names of every member of Berthas graduating class sits on the last page, next to a very interesting and timely quote from Bertha; “May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris, with no stop, was a success today”

Small, blue notebook with gold emblem on the front cover