Old Yearbooks on Ancestry

It looks like Ancestry has had old yearbooks on their site for awhile, but I think they recently added some new ones including one that is useful to me: Arkansas City High School in Kansas. My grandmother, Hazel Peters, graduated from there in 1928.

Hazel Peters (1910-1975) (married to James Edward Stewart) Senior Photo – original in possession of family

I don’t know what is legal to post from Ancestry, so I’m thankful that Hazel’s senior photo is on the possession of my family. (Note: the hair looks odd because it was digitally colored & I changed it back to black & white.) So, I’m not going to post other photos from the book, but I encourage you to look! Here are some interesting things I found in Hazel’s yearbook:

• • Hazel’s senior photo
  • A page entitled “Interpretive Reading” that says Hazel tied for 4th place
  • A page entitled “The Play: Barry Corners” about the senior class play where “Hazel Peters, as Grace, Pat’s (the main character) older sister, haughty and disdainful, lent a decided contrast to the merry Patsy. Hazel was ‘in’ her part from start to finish and her acting was outstanding.” I was thrilled to find out that my grandmother acted as I was in plays in high school and I didn’t know my grandmother was, too!
  • A photo of the school play, though I’m not sure which one is Hazel. I’m going to take this photo to Kansas next month and see if I can find out!
  • The photo of the cheerleaders… they were all guys!
  • The photo of the band… they were all guys! (But, the orchestra had females, too!)

I absolutely loved ‘reading’ through this old yearbook. I’ve also found them for a few of her cousins and aunts and uncles so I’m going to keep digging!