[Plummz]

In the US, a member of the high school varsity sports team (or sometimes non-sports team) receives a "letter."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman_%28sports%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_letter

They can then buy a "letter jacket" or "letter sweater" to display the letter and their status.

The sweaters have gone out of fashion, but letter jackets are still around. It may be that in the 1950s, girls wore letter sweaters and boys had jackets.

So, Ann posing with her club without a letter sweater may be because she was a manager, or she was on the junior varsity team and hadn't earned a letter, or because as a budding class warrior she eschewed status symbols and refused to buy or wear an "elitist" letter.

I'm not saying for sure the photo isn't shopped, but those are all possible reasons why she isn't dressed like the other girls on the photo. It would be nice to have more context -- like the rest of the photo, the rest of the yearbook page, the captions, etc.

[Fred Nerks]

OK, have it any way you want it, she's also staring into space because she can't see the man with the camera but the other girls can, and she refuses to hold the pose the others are holding because she's unconventional...I know it's important that you believe the image is genuine, she had to be there so she could graduate in 1960 and go to Hawaii to meet the black Kenyan native so she could fall in love and have a baby...AND IF SHE WASN'T THERE it throws the entire myth into the garbage where it belongs. But have it your way.

It would be nice to have more context -- like the rest of the photo, the rest of the yearbook page, the captions, etc.

Wouldn't it just! I think I understand why you might say that. It bothers you that you don't know the origin of that image. You don't. But I do.