Monday, August 21, 2023

Dorchester's Missing Yearbooks


For alumni and former students of Dorchester Public School, the online collection of DPS yearbooks -- available at dorchesterschool.org -- is a great resource.

At the school's website, visitors will find nearly 75 years of school annuals, each filled with the names, faces, and memories of yesteryear. 

Unfortunately, since the creation of the online yearbook section in 2013, there has always been a missing era, with no sign of the 1940-46 editions.

Of course, from 1941-45, the nation was largely focused on World War II, but we are confident that some type of publications were produced to recognize the senior classes of those years. 

The fact that many alumni from these missing years served in WWII would make the addition of materials from 1940-46 a noteworthy tribute.

When the Dorchester Public School and the DHS Alumni Association teamed up to put all the DPS yearbooks on the school website, they had assistance from older alumni. 
It was a huge undertaking -- and expensive, costing around $4,000, according to our research. Also online is the 1981 Dorchester Centennial history book.

We're certain that every effort was made to find yearbooks or other publications from the 1940-46 yearbooks. But perhaps with the help of the Dorchester Times readership, the alumni association and school staff can put something online to recognize the DHS graduates from these years.

If you know of any publication -- yearbook or otherwise -- that recognizes the DHS senior classes 1940-1946, please contact the school at (402) 946-2781 or touch base with DHS Alumni Association leaders (Brad and Donna Havlat). 

Honoring the classes of 1940-46 would be a nice touch to a great online collection of DHS history.

1 comment:

  1. I know when we were putting this together that Earlier school records only had pictures of classes, which are stored with the annuals.

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