Thursday, October 24, 2013

DHS Yearbooks Now Online


More than six decades of Dorchester Public School history is now online -- so you can relive your glory days whenever you wish and wherever you are.

The project has been a joint effort of Dorchester Public School and the DHS Alumni Association.  

All the annuals/yearbooks in the possession of the Alumni Association are on the DPS website. 

Here is how you use the site:
  1. Visit the Dorchester School home page (http://dorchesterschool.org).  
  2. On the left side of the page, scroll to the bottom of the list and click on "Alumni Center."
  3. When you are prompted for the username, enter "dorchester".  For the password, enter "longhorns".  Use lowercase letters.  Then click continue.  
This was a huge undertaking -- and expensive, from what we have been told.  Pictured above is the DPS lobby just outside the gym. This TV is connected to an Apple iPad, which has access to all the DPS yearbooks from 1949 till 2012.

For those who don't have computer access, you are welcome to visit the school and use the online library there.  A special thanks to the Superintendent Mitch Kubicek and longtime DHS Alumni Association volunteer Tom Schefert for getting this project off the ground.  

Also, take a look at Dorchester School's new Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dorchester-Public-School/187935504616253.  

DPS educator Mr. Dohmen has taken on the Facebook project so that parents and alumni can see what’s going on at DPS in the present.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for doing this! Wonderful! Brings back memories.

    Saw my photo! I'm the one with the weird hairstyle.

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  2. Thanks to the dorchester times for covering this story. Two great resources, the Times and the alumni yearbook database.

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    1. Very nice.......I like to see the community and school working together for the benefit of all! That is the beauty of a small community. Thanks!

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  3. You know, when I first heard about this project, I didn't think much of it. Yet last night I spent nearly two hours pouring over the annuals from my era, the mid- to late 70s. I really appreciate that someone made the effort to do this. What a great town and alumni base we have. I mean it - wouldn't live anywhere else.

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