Early History of the Regis Yearbook

By Lauren Dean

The purpose of the yearbook was to help students to remember their classmates, school, events, athletic achievements, and trends of the time. Regis’ first yearbook was made in 1964. The editors were Ann Marie Stuckart, Carolyn Miotke, Jean Basl, Sally Smith and Mary Smith. Back in 1964, school laptops or computers were not invented yet. So each editor had to sketch out their design for the yearbook and individually print the pages at a local library. 

Before the invention of photography, yearbooks were often composed by the individual student. Class and school events were memorialized through the inclusion of cut flowers, notes and articles about events, and even crops of hair. The first known school yearbook published in the U.S. came from Yale University in 1806.

Since most people did not have their own cameras,  in the 1960’s professional photographers would visit Regis High School to take pictures of individual students, entire classes, and important events, such as dances or football games to accompany portraits in the yearbook. 

If you look at the 1964 yearbook, you can see that Regis was very different from now, especially for girls. Girls had to wear skirts and a collared shirt with a blazer. Another thing that was noticed was the women’s haircut. The popular haircut was “The Beehive” and a pixie cut. There were no sports teams for the girls at this time, but there was a club called the Girl’s League. They were an active club on campus and the 1965 yearbook states the main activity they were involved in was a fashion show and a tea in honor of their mothers. Their representatives were Linda Wolf, Theresa Quinter, Sharon Gilbert, Pat Neisius, Betty Ruef, Diane Schumacher, Pam Forrette and Gayle Owen.