THE TRAIL BLAZER: Centralia Junior College Yearbooks
Centralia, Washington: 1943 and 1944. The 1943 and 1944 yearbooks for Centralia Junior College in Centralia, Washington, a city located along Interstate 5 near the midpoint between Seattle and Portland. The school, which opened in 1925, developed slowly at first, constructing its first physical campus in 1950. As the concluding remarks in the 1943 Yearbook observe, these were produced amidst World War II:
"The Yearbook staff has tried to present representative activities of the college year. We found, however, that many activities important in our student life this year hard to portray adequately in pictures. Weekly sales of war stamps and bonds, by-monthly manning of the Observation Post, Red Cross drives and various salvage drives for the war effort were difficult to photograph. The staff hopes, however, that the pictures included in the 1943 Yearbook will serve as reminders of student participation in the activities due to the war as well as those of the regular college year."
Produced in-house, each yearbook is illustrated with tipped-in photographs, 90 in the 1943 issue and 72 in the 1944 issue, which is entitled The Trail Blazer after the school's mascot. The administration, classes, dramatic productions, athletics, and social affairs are som of the activities seen in the images. Both yearbooks belonged to Dorothy Mae Rigg (later Collias, 1924-2006), a lifelong Washington State resident. The signature and inscriptions of numerous classmates appear throughout.
Unpaginated, with 32 p. and 28 p., respectively. Both are bound with ribbon in blue cardstock wrappers (9" x 11"), with printed black titles on the front panel of the 1944 Yearbook. Some general toning and minor soiling to the wrappers; otherwise very good. Item #77070
Price: $75.00