I'm tempted to say that times were simpler then but the people who lived through that era would tell you they had their own set of problems to deal with just as we have our own set of things to deal with today.
What's important to me about scanning and saving books like this online is that they give us a glimpse into a specific time and place into the past and the picture sets also insure that some of these people and places will live on forever.
I've got the 1968 Buccaneer and a 1970 edition yearbook from Hiwassee College yet to scan so stay tuned for those as well. But for now, enjoy 1956 ETSU style. Oh, one more thing, ETSU in 1956 was not a very ethnically diverse place at all, there was only one picture of a black person in this entire book and in that picture the black person was serving punch to a white person.
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I happened to find a copy of the 1961 University of Texas yearbook when I was working at an antique mall; that's the yearbook which contains a picture of my dad when he was an undergrad. I've only ever looked at the one page with his picture, but perhaps I'll take some time to check out the rest. I'm sure I'll find some similar shots to yours! They're awesome, BTW.
And I think you're right--people in every era think they're facing big problems. Still--has any American generation ever faced the shit we're looking at now and in the future? I have to say no.
Photo #2 reminds me of my college days (or nights, actually) at UGA.
Hmmm. Reminds me about the oft used quote from Socrates about how awful youths in his day were.
Wonder if in the future, someone will look back at 'now' and think that those were simpler times?
my high school yearbook was also the bucaneer.
Somehow I expected more pirates.
I think I saw that first pic on a 10,000 Maniacs record.
I was thinking the same thing, Splotchy!
I love these scans. And yeah, I think it's easy to romanticize bygone eras....
I've wondered why society continues to perpetrate myths like the innocence of children, or the idea that things were better if not perfect in the "old days."
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