As longtime readers know I’ve been collecting old yearbooks from my alma mater for a while now. It started innocently enough, I found those from my grandparents’ generation and thought “It’d be neat to see how things were back then.”
And they were neat. It was a great view back in time. And then I found a yearbook from my mother’s generation.
I thought I’d scan them for you. I took the most interesting pictures from the 50s and the 70s and from my freshman book, just as a little something to do. You can see that project here.
And that’s when the problem began, really. I started going to bookstores, and then E-bay and collecting all these books. I have a large bookcase full of them. The students of (then named) Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama started the Glomerata in 1897. The one that comes out next spring will be Volume 114. I have 78 of them.
And many of them are just handsome. They went a little crazy in the 80s, of course, and adequately explored the spectrum of browns in the 70s, but there are some beautiful works. So I’m making another section that just shows the cover of the book, because that is the best way to judge things.
Three of them are up this week, with more to come each Thursday. Start here.
