Class of ’68 – St. Joseph’s – Purple Dittos

Those of us who were in school in the 1960s remember the smell of purple dittos. Everything that needed to have copies made was written or typed on a purple ditto master, then copies were made using a machine with chemicals that imparted that distinctive smell.  Going through a box of things this week, I came across my copy of our 8th grade (1968) “yearbook” from St. Joseph’s School in Texas, Maryland.  The photo above is a scan of the cover of the yearbook.  Yes, I was the editor of the yearbook, one of the firsts in a long line of things that I have edited, and I was responsible for any errors.  And there were errors.

If I can get good scans of the other pages (some are very hard to read), I will post them later (EDIT – link to the pdf is posted at the bottom of this post).  Meanwhile, I have transcribed the names of my classmates (and a few other schoolmates) who signed the cover:

• Mary (Cassie) Kilroy
• Linda North
• Wiggles (Mike Wojnowski)
• Kevin Butler
• Joe Steinmetz (Tom Mueller)
• Malcom (Dave Malkowski)
• Karon (Glaccum)
• Nancy Callegary
• Barbara (Davidson)
• Denise (DeSesa)
• Joan (Hatter)
• Regina (Dougherty)
• Carl (Shumate)
• Darrylynn (Barnes)
• Carol (Gould)
• Nancy Conte
• Joe Fluri
• Bob Patterson
• Kathy Slowinski
• JoAnn (Lindauer)
• Melvin (Benhoff)
• David Armour
• Therese (Gamble)
• Chris Marion
• Rosemary (Zome)
• Sue Jarkowski
• Mark (Pavlica)
• Laurel (?)
• Stephen (Foster)
• Kevin Feeley
• Kim Michelle Madden
• Casey (Gahan)
• Jimmy (Magee or Flynn?)
• Joe Fluri (yes, he signed twice)
• Norma Jacobs
• Gene Frasca
• Robert France
• Meg (Creaney)

PDF of other pages from the 1968 ditto yearbook:

A couple of the pages were a little hard to read in their scanned format – I added enhanced copies of those pages to the pdf (so both copies of those pages are in the file).