Sean C. Morgan
Sweet Home High School librarian Jill Wilson is looking for copies of old yearbooks and Huskian newspapers.
The High School Library houses a nearly complete collection of yearbooks, from 2019 back to 1945, Wilson said. She’s looking to fill the gaps.
“There are a few missing. I would like to see if the community would be willing to help us complete the collection.”
The school library is missing the yearbooks from 1970, 1952, 1948, 1947, 1946 and everything before 1945.
Last year Joan Saubert, Class of 1956, donated a couple of her yearbooks to the library before she moved, Wilson said.
“She had assumed that we wouldn’t really want them and sent them in hopes that we would. They ended up filling in a two-year gap in our books from the ’50s.”
The community is welcome to come look through the yearbooks, Wilson said. Visitors should stop at the main office, sign in and get a visitor pass after school, 3:15 p.m., on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The yearbooks must stay in the Library, but people are welcome to take as many pictures as they wish, Wilson said. She can also scan pages and email jpg files.
The library also houses a collection of Huskian newspapers created by the school’s publishing class, Wilson said. It has hard-bound books of the newspapers ranging from September 1960 to June 1993.
“I would love to also complete our collection of the Huskian,” Wilson said. “Our Publishing class advisor Mr. Costa started keeping copies of printed editions when he took over the class in the mid 2000s, so we still have a huge gap from 1993 to about 2010.”
The community is also welcome to come and see the old newspapers, Wilson said.
Wilson also would like to find other material related to high school history.
“While completing a school wide textbook inventory a couple of years ago, I found several scrapbooks from the Future Homemakers of America club from the late 1960s,” Wilson said. “I would love to have more things like that housed here for the community to have access to. I know people often keep things from high school to remember, but if anyone is ever cleaning out their attic or moving and they come across anything – old photos, old programs from things like plays or band concerts, old commencement programs – I would love to help keep them safe and thus help preserve some of the history and culture of the school.
“I know the Genealogical Society has a lot of stuff as well, but I love having some here to show the students.”