We’re putting one collection, the historic markers, to bed here. May as well get up-to-date with another. So let’s sneak back over to the Glomerata bookshelf. (I have a big bookshelf.) The Glomerata is the yearbook for my alma mater. For reasons that escape me I’ve been collecting them. I have several. (Told ya, big bookshelf.) A little at a time, I’ve been uploading the covers as a section on the site. I’ve got two or three more to go just now.
Pictured below is the 1944 cover. If you click that cover you can check out today’s addition to the group, the 1945 Glomerata. The campus was about to grow rapidly. If the book came out that spring, the G.I. Bill would be signed that summer. And within the year the place would be crawling with veterans ready to put the war behind them and improve their career options with an education. As the campus would grow in the next few years to meet the new crowds of students, they had young men living in tents. Imagine that today.
Anyway, the 1920s and 1930s yearbooks had some great customized covers. And the first photographs on the cover appeared in the 1940s. If you click on 1944 below you’ll see just the second photo cover of the series.
(These days they are all photograph covers and the books are just terribly formulaic. Yearbooks have lost a lot of personality in the last few years.)
