Item CZYB09
This Item was Sold on 1 February
2014 for $30
Similar artifacts for sale are often found on the Canal
Zone Yearbooks web page.
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This is the 1948 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 - Mr. Paul Beck who was the principal in 1948 and
also when I was a student at CHS in the early 1960s, Dorothy
Huffman [Smith] who was my Senior HS English
teacher, Luke Palumbo who was my 7th grade Science teacher,
Mr. Carl Maedl who was the Principal of CHS who 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 cover has separated from
the book with a failed binding that can be taped 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.