Whoa! Is this legit?
Hard to believe this is an official high school yearbook..
MY yearbooks are on the web-——1950,1954
So are my kids’.
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“Whoa! Is this legit?
Hard to believe this is an official high school yearbook..”
My yearbook wasn’t quite as descriptive, but the scene described isn’t far off. We must have been better drinkers because we could remember most nights and managed to drive home.
Nothing like a good keg party!
Whoa! Is this legit?
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That’s my question, too. It seems too inappropriate for a yearbook.
Honestly having graduated in 88 myself, a few years earlier would have been the dead center of the “Preppy Handbook” era.
For what it’s worth here is this book on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Official-Preppy-Handbook-Lisa-Birnbach/dp/0894801406
My sister (class of ‘86) thought that ridiculous book was some kind of bible. We lived far from east coast style elitist schools, so I can’t say our own yearbooks sounded as bad as this - the Holton Arms yearbook pages sound exactly like that handbook. Glorifying drinking and promiscuity at every turn - and if the editors of the yearbook were of the same mindset - it isn’t surprising that they would think this kind of drivel makes them all seem all the more elite.
None of my yearbooks have the word, “decummification.”
It’s no wonder Blowzey doesn’t remember who, what, where, when.
“Seeing such insensitive racism in action at this prestigious girls academy, attended by mostly white rich girls, provides context of the very privileged attitude exhibited by the Holton-Arms all female student body. That the Holton girls got these yearbooks approved by faculty and paid for by their parents shows just how powerful they were in their own right at such a young age.”
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