At the beginning of this year I said to myself that I was going to scan all the yearbooks that I had in a stack. There were about 20 yearbooks at that time. Now after scanning a lot of yearbooks I still have 18 more to scan. That’s because I bought more. Will I ever catch up? Probably not as I keep finding yearbooks that aren’t already online.

This week’s yearbook is Cometeer 1960 from Rush-Henrietta Central School in Henrietta, NY. The graduating class that year was 100 students.

This yearbook has a problem with some pages. The beige colored pages are “tipped in.” That is a printers term meaning that they are glued along one edge. So you can’t see the full page next to the tipped in pages. In this case, look at page 1 and 15 and you will see missing letters along the left edge.

In 1960 Henrietta was still considered rural. The picture is of their Future Farmers club. There might be just two or three farms left in Henrietta. Southtown Plaza opened in 1956 and the retail area hasn’t stop growing since. This article from 2007 in the Rochester Business Journal is about what Henrietta was like in the past.

I did spend some time last week scanning family photos and uploading them to FamilySearch. I think I uploaded about 75 photos. I like to scan those at 600DPI but when saved as a B&W Jpeg file they end up less than a megabyte.