Item CZYB08
This Item was Sold on 18 August
2014 for $38.50
Similar artifacts for sale are often found on the Canal
Zone Yearbooks web page.
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This is the 1947 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of the
Panama Canal Zone in the town of Cristobal. The contents
include the faculty and freshmen through senior students The
end of the yearbook has lots of cool advertisements from
familiar places in Panama, especially on the Atlantic side.
I was delighted to find many of my own teachers in this
yearbook - Dorothy Huffman [Smith] who was my Senior
HS English teacher, Luke Palumbo who was my 7th grade
Science teacher, Mr. Carl Maedl who was also a Principal of
CHS (Mr. Maedl suspended me for having my shirt tails out in
1965), and Mr. Oswald Jorstad who taught me how to play the
Clarinet in 1961. Some of my classmates' parents are listed
in this yearbook. The cover is in good condition, but the
stitching on back cover is starting to come loose and the
cover is separated from the book with a failed binding that
can be retaped if desired. The pages are starting to yellow,
but are otherwise in very good condition. A rare and
valuable document about life in the former Panama Canal
Zone. This yearbook was originally issued to Dorothy Huffman
Smith.