The Argos
Abbot Pennings High School Yearbooks
Abbot Pennings High School Yearbooks
For the 2021 migrations of APHS content to this google blog, I did some research and several of our yearbooks on classmates.com. Rather than scanning the ones I have in, I am going to link to those. You should be able to see the cover and a couple pages, but then it reverts to thumbnails if you aren't logged in with a classmates account.
If you want to see page by page you would have to create a classmates.com free account and login. I did that using a sacrificial e-mail account and it seems to be fine. Some annoying pop-up ads and spam to that e-mail account, but it's been fun to see the old yearbooks. Amazing how many teachers I had in the 80s were there in 1966!
I do have some other yearbooks I could submit to classmates. Please let me know if anyone thinks that's a particularly good or bad idea. See below the books for my mid-2000 scanning story. (Click on the link to the right, not on the picture of the cover.)
(PDF Scans from 2009)
1982 Argos - When Will We Soar?
2021 Note - This was the description of my first attempt at scanning yearbooks in 2009. Some of those PDF scans are linked above.
I don't know why our yearbook was named after Odysseus' faithful dog, but it gave an air of class and import to the Pennings yearbook. As mentioned elsewhere, I was the Photo Editor of the 1985 edition, which meshed well with my enjoyment of photography and historical documentation (as does this website.) "What about scanning yearbooks and creating pdfs for each year?", asked an '81 grad who found this site. Good idea, I thought, but it seems like an awful lot of work. But then I heard from an '82 grad who never got a yearbook. What the heck. I have an '82 Argos. Work has a color copier that scans...
I gave it a try and put a few out on the old website.My first scan, the 1982, went well, but I will have to break them up as the files are very large. I did the '84 Argos next out of guilt. I'm pretty sure most of us never got that, which is partly my fault. When the '85 Argos staff took on the job, we stipulated that we would not spend the first semester finishing the previous years, and committed to getting the '85 edition out before everyone left for college. I was proud that we accomplished this, breaking a cycle that went back a decade or so, but it was at the expense of the 1984 book. As it turns out, a teacher (Jacqueline Collins I believe) took it upon herself to finish it. I found it at the auction during the final picnic in 1990, but I suspect most of the '84 grads were not so lucky. If not, I'm glad I can put it out here.If you check these out, be ready for a little wait on the download. They are typically between 5 and 10 megabytes. If you feel like spending some time digitizing your Argos, let me know and we'll figure out how to get it up here. (I used 200dpi, grayscale on a Toshiba copier.) I will eventually get the ones I have, '82, '83, '84 and '85, up here. My brothers should have '86 through '90. In the meantime, enjoy the '82 edition, the '84 and some selected info from the late1960s.
2021 Note - The bandwidth to download the PDFs is not much of a problem anymore, but it was an issue in 2009!
Great stewardship of our APHS heritage as well as significant parts of our collective youth. I am willing to start taking on my '75-'79 yearbooks. Please post any additional tips on scanning.
ReplyDeleteCheers! Jim Koehler Class of '79