Item CZYB13
This Item was Sold on 7 October
2011 for $191
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 1968 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 7 through
12. 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 in this yearbook as a Senior (CHS
Class of 1968). I have my own personal copy of this yearbook
with greetings from classmates and that one is not offered
for sale. This yearbook belonged to Mrs. Dorothy Huffman
Smith who was the Senior High School English teacher and the
director of the yearbook committee. I remained in touch with
Mrs. Smith after graduation until her recent death. I live a
2 hour drive from her home near Lima , Ohio and I would
visit her every year and bring her Rose Apples and Gynnips.
Dorothy would tell me stories that she never told her
students and I won't repeat any of them here. Her wishes
were to have her yearbook collection donated to the Panama
Canal Museum. After her death, Dorothy's family contacted me
and gave me her entire yearbook collection. I called the
museum and was told that they already had 3 copies of each
yearbook and they did not want any more. Instead, they
wanted money to pay for digitizing their existing yearbooks
through the University
of Florida Panama Archives. I contacted Dorothy's family
and they approved of my retention of the yearbooks in
exchange for a monetary donation to the museum. This
yearbook is one of Dorothy's yearbooks and I am selling it
to help me recover part of my monetary contribution to the
museum. This yearbook is in like-new condition except for a
dedication to Mrs. Smith written on the inside front cover.
A rare and valuable document about life in the former Panama
Canal Zone.