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Woodrow Wilson High School, 1951. Hardcover, 200 pp.; 29 cm; edited by Douglas Skare; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Silver pebble-grain textured boards, inset blue and silver title label on front cover; scuffing with color loss at head and foot of spine, light rubbing and nicking to corner tips, light overall soiling, a few small reddish spots near foot of front cover. Binding tight. Blue endpapers filled with classmates' signatures and messages in ink and pencil, front and rear; previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. Foxing to front free endpaper verso and to first leaf; brief ink notes along inner margin of front free endpaper verso; a few ink signatures throughout. Pages otherwise lightly toned, with occasional light spotting, and unmarked. Silver Anniversary yearbook (Volume 25) of Woodrow Wilson High School, Long Beach, California, marking the school's twenty-fifth year. Designed and printed by students in the school's printing and linotype classes under instructor Max Morrison, with photographs largely by student photographer Ted Mohler. Sections on the anniversary, administration, classes, activities, school life, clubs, sports and advertisements. The anniversary section covers the school's first alumni reunion, with returning graduates from the classes of 1927 onward, and a photographic look back at Wilson's Fiesta day. Also includes the 25th annual Christmas pageant, a Civilian Defence "Drop!" air-raid drill, the new gym and natatorium, and Wilson's 13-12 upset of Long Beach Poly in the new Veterans' Stadium. Advertising section has photographs of period Long Beach businesses, among them St. Clair's Drive-In, Walker's department store, Meads Store for Men and Termino Pharmacy. Laid in: two copies of the program for the Twenty-seventh Annual Commencement of Woodrow Wilson High School, Stephens Field, June 18, 1953, listing the June and February 1953 graduates, with California Scholarship Federation and service graduates marked; and the program for the Twenty-ninth Annual Commencement of Modesto Junior College, June 14, 1951, with graduation list and honor roll, noting graduates of extension courses at Castle Air Force Base. Contents: Introduction; Anniversary; Administration; Classes; Activities; Life; Clubs; Sports; Advertisements.