Item CZYB10
This Item was Sold on 20 February
2016 for $49
Similar artifacts for sale are often found on the Canal
Zone Yearbooks web page.
Historical Pricing information for this item and similar artifacts
can be found at: Historical Artifact
Prices.
This is the 1965 Caribbean yearbook from Cristobal High
School, located on the Atlantic side of the isthmus of the
Panama Canal Zone in the town of Coco Solo. The contents
include faculty and student activities for grades 9 through
12. There are a few 7th and 8th grade students in some of
the group activities (music, etc.). The end of the yearbook
has lots of cool advertisements from familiar places in
Colon and the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone. I am a
student in this yearbook - a Freshman (CHS Class of 1968).
This yearbook belonged to Mrs. Dorothy Huffman Smith who was
the Senior High School English teacher as well as the
director of the yearbook committee. I stayed in touch with
Mrs. Smith after graduating from CHS. Dorothy wanted her
yearbook collection to be donated to the Panama Canal Museum
in Florida. After her death, Dorothy's family gave me her
entire yearbook collection to give to the museum. The museum
said that they already had 3 copies of each yearbook and
they did not want any more. Instead, they wanted money to
pay for digitizing existing yearbooks so that images could
be added to the University
of Florida Panama Archives. I gave the museum a large
donation and kept the yearbooks. This yearbook is one of
Dorothy's yearbooks and I am selling it to help me recover
part of my donation to the museum. This yearbook is in
like-new condition except for Dorothy's signature on the
first page. A rare and valuable document about life in the
former Panama Canal Zone.