This is the 1968 Conquistador yearbook from Canal Zone College, located on the Pacific side of the isthmus of the old Panama Canal Zone in the town of La Boca, just under the foundation of the Bridge of the Americas. It is in very nice condition with only tiny blemishes from shelf storage and minor wear on spine corners. There is no writing inside except for the previous owner's name on top of page 3 and a library number on first blank page. This yearbook has everything that you would find in a typical yearbook from an American high school or college, plus more. The Canal Zone College was a two year institution and it served the function of a junior college for American [and Panamanian] students who planned to go to college and obtain their college degrees in the USA. Some of the students obtained apprenticeships and stayed in the Canal Zone. The Canal Zone College had sports teams that competed against the American high schools, Cristobal High School and Balboa high School. When I was a student at Cristobal High School, we occasionally went to the Canal Zone College for music programs, just to get away from the Atlantic side for a one day field trip. If you look at the photo below, you will see a large two page spread on the inside of both the front and rear covers. The photo depicts the Canal Zone College as I remembered it in the 1960s. I did not attend CZC, but a lot of my friends did and this yearbook was issued the same year that I graduated from Cristobal High School, so I knew a lot of the students that are in this yearbook. In addition to sections on faculty and students, you will find a lot of photos of sporting events and other activites in the Canal Zone. As with most Canal Zone yearbooks, there are cool adveretisements in the back: United Fruit Company, Squirt, Gulf Oil, Esso Oil and local businesses that you will remember if you lived on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal Zone in the 1960s.

Many of the yearbooks from the Panama Canal Zone have been digitized and are available as free downloadable JPGs on the University of Florida's archival website, but you cannot search the text on graphics and reading jpegs on iBooks is not easy on your eyes.. You can also purchase xerox copies of yearbooks from Classmates.com for about $80, so it is much better to purchase an original copy of this yearbook to keep for your own.