Our Annual Report

Are you aware of the social sites on the web, such as facebook? These sites allow you to use your computer to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, no matter how many years or miles separate you.

This site can also unite people who have a common background or support a common cause. Oh, sure, there are the mundane political issues, but there are also more appealing reasons to start a group page. One might be a common history the group members have shared, as is the case with the alumni of a school.

It was with this in mind that I started a page called “Feds Creek Yearbooks”. Because it asks you for it, I have stated as the purpose of this group the posting of every page of every yearbook ever put out in the history of Feds Creek High School. Keep in mind that this school’s history spanned the years from 1932, when the school was in a one-room building at the mouth of Motley Fork, to its last year as a high school in 2002, so this goal is ambitious, to say the least.

Not that a yearbook was published for every year. The oldest ones I am aware of were two published in the late ‘30’s. Two more appeared in late ‘40’s, while the ‘50’s may have seen no more than 3 or 4. This tradition of yearbooks being published randomly continued into the ‘60’s, although more were published in this decade. Still, ’62 was perhaps the first yearbook, and ’65 may have been the next. 1967, the year the school was runner-up in the region, had no annual, while 1969 saw a smaller edition of a yearbook in a paperback booklet.

Because I started the group, I also started the tedious task of scanning in my oldest annual, the 1965 yearbook. First the pages have to be scanned into your computer, then uploaded to an album on your facebook page. I included the front cover, then scanned each section of the yearbook in separately. Because pictures are arranged alphabetically, and because I wanted quick access to each picture, I saved each with a single letter, beginning with t. The second one as tt, and so on. This puts pictures together and makes uploading them much easier.

The album into which I save the annual was titled “1965 Feds Creek Annual”. For whatever reason, a group’s page won’t allow you to post separate albums. So, once the annual was completely uploaded to my facebook page, I then posted a link to it on the group’s page. I now have three annuals posted, the last being from 1968.

I plan on continuing until I have posted all of my annuals. The rest of my collection is from the ‘70’s, and I am missing ’71, ’72, and ’74. The rest will make their appearances shortly.

If you are interested in this group, log into facebook and enter the words Feds Creek Yearbooks. This will bring up the group’s page. It includes instructions on how to get your annuals scanned in for you. The cost for this could be as little as the price of shipping.

In the meantime, check out the group’s page. There are some memories that would like to see you.