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).
[…] If interested, you can see the 1968 Yearbook here. […]