Do you still have your original yearbook?

 

          Our yearbook, the 1965 Crimson Log, is now all over the place. It's been posted on classmates.com thanks to Linda Lassow Kaldek, (see Message Forum Page). It's been turned into a CD thanks to Rick Dias and Gary LeFreancois, and everyone at the two reunions that I've attended lately either has it, or regrets losing it along life's path.

 

          I know many people feel as I do that it's a precious keepsake, a wonderful time capsule of our youth. I have read it several times in the last two years. I smile at the fashions, can picture the event photographed or posed to depict a "typical day." I enjoy the nostalgia and can't help noticing the modesty of the uniforms and how so many of us tried to conform. The picture of Mr Bonner with the latest in technology of the time, the first computer to grace NBHS, makes me smile as I type on a laptop with many times the memory and functions . We were so lucky to have been there. So, do you still have your original yearbook and have you consulted it lately?

 

 

          My yearbook was left at my parents' home at 516 North Front Street, New Bedford, MA the day I left home as a new bride on the way to honeymoon in Nassau, then to live in Florida. My parents moved to Florida for a few years in the seventies, bringing the yearbook with them. We moved twice in Florida building two homes in the process. The yearbook was always next to our wedding album on the wall to wall book shelves. For a block of time, years passed without my cracking it open. Then as the 25th anniversary of our graduation approached, I sat and studied it and regretted losing touch with people and the years drifted away again. Then our 45th anniversary approached and I was invited through classmates.com to register for our website. Since then, that youthful time and the present has been bridged and I feel richer for reconnecting with old classmates and thank them for their gift of friendship.