History

A 1927 High School Yearbook

My mother’s yearbook tells us quite a bit about what life was like for a Shrewsbury High School student in the late 1920s.

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is located east of Worcester and is where my mother grew up and attended High School. Very recently my sister came across her graduation yearbook from 1927.

Shrewsbury has had a High School since 1879, so it didn’t surprise me that she had a yearbook, but I was fascinated to see how similar it was in format to yearbooks of today.

It’s interesting that the yearbook has a logo on the front page that says ‘Shrewsbury High School 1866”, differing from the history at the town website.

My scan from my mother’s 1927 Shrewsbury MA yearbook

Apparently yearbooks have existed since at least the 1880s and High Schools in Massachusetts existed since 1852, so Shrewsbury was not quick to provide higher education, but it wasn’t tardy either. My mother’s yearbook tells us quite a bit about what life was like for a Shrewsbury High School student in the late 1920s.

Dedication

The yearbook begins with a picture of Merle A. Sturtevant, Superintendent of Schools. A dedication is on the next page.

You were the rock whose niches held our…