Ah, here are where the real treasures bubble up!
Send along what you've got, so we can share them with everyone.
When the VHS Class of '69 held its 45th Reunion in 2014, party favors included JPEG
scans of Fairviewers from 1965-69. Every attendee received a CD with those files.
Then Jay Aiello '69 kindly donated the leftover CDs to our 50th Reunion attendees!
So we went to work... "cleaning up" each JPEG page, saving them as user-friendly PDFs,
& assembling a school-year's worth of issues for each of our final three years at VHS.
NOTE: These are pretty big files... over 100MB each.
For best results,
right-click on these links & save them to your hard drive.
Junior Year: 1966-67
(The final three issues of that year are missing. Please check your attic...)
BONUS -- The Sports Page headline we never had the chance to write:
Several months after we graduated, The Curse was broken!
November 5, 1968 Fairviewer Sports Page
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Want your own poster-size version of our 8th Grade Class Photo?
Just download (right-click) this PDF file to your computer.
Then bring it on a thumb drive to any Staples store with a print shop!
This just in... The Whitehorne News! (1964 editions)
Hmmm... Who won our 8th Grade elections for Freshman Class officers?
What did Mr. Morris & Mr. Babb think of the Beatles?
What was Mr. Litwhiler's opinion of the Whitehorne cafeteria?
Get the scoop from these PDFs:
BONUS!
Check out the first edition from our 7th Grade school year
(It was called the White Hornet then...)
This ancient parchment was unearthed by Skip Kays.
It's the Verona-Cedar Grove Times' verb-free manifest
of
the destinations of
the VHS Class of 1968.
(Well, at least those class members with surnames from C to Z)
Maybe if they'd deleted all those middle names, they could have fit
everyone onto one page.
Did you notice that 8.6% of us "had no clear plans"
and that only 1.9% of us "had definite employment"?
Hmmm...
1968... meet 2019!
Here's the "mainstream media" account of the Forest Avenue 5th Graders'
invasion of a sleepy New York village on October 5, 1960.
Thanks to Ellen Presty Ashworth for contributing it!
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No longer available on any newsstand, the Whitehorne Messenger
was our junior high literary magazine.
In addition to foreshadowing the writing successes of Lynne Barrett,
this 1963-64 edition may have served as the inspiration for
the National Lampoon's classic 1964 Yearbook parody,
published ten years later.
Click on the cover to view/download the entire 20-page (14MB) PDF.
But be patient, it's a pretty big file.
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Need to know who your Homeroom Representative was during Junior Year?
Or when we filed into the auditorium for the “World Of The Electron” assembly?
Or the street addresses and phone numbers of everyone at VHS...
back when we had a 201 area code...
(which we didn’t have to dial)?
Why then, click on this Red Cross Student Directory,
and its 12MB PDF will reveal all the answers!
Warning: some of the phone numbers may have changed.
We made a brief, two-page appearance in the 1967 Shadows yearbook:
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Did anyone catch the erroneous caption of the "Summit Meeting" photo?
(That's not Nancy Stetson; it's Lynne Barrett!)
Oh, and the photo supposedly of Mr T.'s English Class?
Uh-uh. That's just Homeroom 119.
The staff of Shadows 1968 would certainly have caught those boo-boos...
Remember listening to these guys?
And it was 45 years ago that we got out of Dodge.
Thanks again to Ellen Presty Ashworth for saving and scanning the evidence:
Okay, now it's your turn. Scan & email your stuff, so we can add it here.
(If the file sizes are really big, please put 'em on Dropbox & email us the link)