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Thanks to a contribution from the Chapel Hill Historical Society, two new Chapel Hill High School yearbooks from 1972 and 1973 are now available on DigitalNC! Chapel Hill High School has a long history of over 100 years. It has been in its current location since Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools were integrated in 1966, and Chapel Hill High School and Lincoln High School were merged. In classic 1970s fashion, these yearbooks are filled with photos that are richly illustrative of teenage life, interspersed with student poetry and musings on the uncertainty of life after high school.
Visitors to the site can view the extensive collections contributed by the Chapel Hill Historical Society at their contributor page here, and more Chapel Hill High School yearbooks here. Learn more about the Chapel Hill Historical Society at their website here. To view more yearbooks from other schools in the Triangle and across North Carolina, visit The North Carolina Yearbook collection linked here.
For over 50 years, Forsyth Technical Community College has been providing higher education across 12 locations in Forsyth and Stokes counties. DigitalNC is excited to add our first Forsyth Tech materials with a large batch that includes newspapers, catalogs, handbooks, magazines, yearbooks, and scrapbooks. These documents provide a comprehensive look into Forsyth Tech’s history and how it became a community staple. With documents dating back to the 1960s, visitors to the site can read articles by longtime president Dr. Bob H. Greene, follow legislative debates concerning education funding, or revisit President Obama’s visit to the campus in 2010.
Peruse the Forsyth Technical Community College Student Newspaper here, and see all of the Forsyth Tech materials at their contributor page here. To view more materials from community colleges across North Carolina, please view our North Carolina Community College Collections exhibit here.
Thanks to our partners at the Henderson County Education History Initiative, decades of mid-century yearbooks are now available at DigitalNC! This batch contains almost fifteen issues of The Chief, the historic yearbook of Etowah High School in Henderson County. The yearbooks span from 1938 to 1960, recording student life as America prepared for, entered, and emerged from the second World War. They join thirty yearbooks already digitized in collaboration with Henderson County Education History Initiative, further expanding the area’s archival presence online.
Cover of the 1956 Etowah High School Yearbook
One of the most interesting recurring features within the new yearbooks is the annual feature on the North Carolina Apple King and Queen, the winners of a pageant celebrating North Carolina’s apple orchards. The pageant is split into several age divisions, with a junior, elementary, and senior king and queen announced each year and meticulously recorded within The Chief’s pages. The pageant would culminate in a King Apple Parade, which drew great crowds of spectators.
Interested in Henderson County history? You can find our entire Henderson County collection online at DigitalNC here, or visit our partners at the Henderson County Education History Initiative here.
To browse more materials related to North Carolina, take a look at the other collections on Digital NC. To view more North Carolina yearbooks, visit our Yearbooks Collections on Digital NC. When new materials contributed by Blowing Rock Historical Society becomes available you can find them on their contributors page. In the meantime, you can check out what Blowing Rock Historical Society has been up to on their website.
Thanks to our partners at Campbell University, DigitalNC is proud to announce that four new yearbooks are now available! These issues of Pine Burr are some of the most recent publications from Campbell’s past, spanning from 2016 to 2023. They will join a collection of over one hundred Campbell yearbooks currently hosted on DigitalNC, some of which reach back into the first decade of the twentieth century.
The new yearbooks reflect student and faculty life immediately before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating the ways in which university systems adapted both instruction and education to protect the health of its student body. They could prove to be a vital resource for future researchers, which makes their preservation all the more important. Further, the recency of the publications are a useful comparison to Campbell’s older materials, reflecting over a century of growth and change within Harnett County.
You can read new issues of The Pine Burr online at DigitalNC here. Interested in learning more about Campbell University history? Find more resources online at DigitalNC here, or visit Campbell University’s digital archives online here.
Featured among these documents are the magazines published alongside both the Henredon Classic and the Planters Pat Bradley International golf tournaments. These golf tournaments were hosted annually at the Willow Creek Golf Club at High Point, and attracted world famous golfers from across the country. Each magazine featured notable competitors in each tournament, alongside columns by sports journalists analyzing the game of golf at large. Some issues even include profiles on the golfers and detailed maps of the courses they would play on. Of course, each magazine is a wonderful resource for advertisement from the eighties: local businesses and furniture manufacturers hold a key presence amongst the pages.
The latest batch also included large number of church bulletins from congregations within High Point. Churches included are Wesley Memorial Methodist, Oakview United Methodist, and Washington Street Methodist. Many of the church bulletins describe the construction and design of Wesley Memorial’s new chapel, allegedly one of the last gothic churches constructed in North America. One bulletin conducts a thorough art historical analysis of the symbolic decorations of the church, detailing the allusions carved into the walls of the church: a splendid resource for anyone interested in art history or planning to visit the historic site!
Four yearbooks from T. Wingate Andrews High School and High Point Central High School were also included in the batch, with all books covering the early 1970s at the schools.
If we’ve piqued your interest, you can investigate all of our brand new documents here. Interested in learning more about High Point history? View more documents on our website here, or visit High Point Museum’s website here.
We are happy to announce the addition of three new yearbooks from King’s Mountain High School in King’s Mountain, N.C., contributed by our partner the Mauney Memorial Library! These issues of Milestones cover the years 1970, 1971, and 1973 and depict classic ’70s fashion, hair, and wisdom. These yearbooks are full of snarky captions, allusions to the political issues of the era, and insights into the state of modern life.
Located just outside of Charlotte, King’s Mountain High School is still active today. Its rich history is well-represented on our site, with yearbooks dating from 1939, photographs, and programs. Do you recognize anyone you know? To view more yearbooks from other schools across North Carolina visit The North Carolina Yearbook collection linked here.
Three Charlotte-area high school yearbooks are now available on DigitalNC, thanks to our partners at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library! 1953 and 1954 yearbooks from West Mecklenburg High School have been added to our existing collection of West Mecklenburg High yearbooks. These volumes are now the earliest West Mecklenburg High available on the site. We are also excited to upload a new yearbook from Paw Creek High School. This 1951 yearbook depicts a slice of North Carolina teenage life in the early 1950s, and is our first from that decade.
Thank to our partner, Lee County Libraries, batches containing five scrapbooks,1962 yearbook from Sanford High School, and 15 Sanford city directories are now available on DigitalNC! The scrapbooks in this batch adds three Sanford Woman’s Club scrapbooks spanning from 1964 to 1968; a North Carolina’s Finer Committee’s 1955 community projects; and one filled with newspaper clippings related to various Sanford, North Carolina topics from 1957 to 1958. In the second batch are 15 Hill’s Sanford city directories from 1954; 1964; 1966-1978. Included among the city directories are is a yearbook: the 1962 Sanford High School.
In 1955, the Finer Carolina Committee’s head, Dr. J. F. Hulin, reported on the five different community projects from that year. The Sanford, North Carolina’s Finer Carolina Committee Community Projects [1955] scrapbook provides a look into these projects as they were happening using newspaper clippings as well as photographs. Before each new section is a document that provides a detailed list of accomplishments, news, and tasks completed related to that project.
The photographs featured in this post provide a visual for an accomplishment under Project Number Three: General Clean-up and Beautification where neighbors worked together to clean up a littered field and turned the area into a park which featured playground equipment contributed by local Sanford merchants.
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