WR 26: Worcester High School Yearbook collection |
1 folder (.01 cubic feet)
(1967)
Worcester County Library: Genealogy and Local History Collection, Snow Hill Branch, Snow Hill, MD
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Identifier: |
WR 26 |
| Creator(s): |
Worcester High School |
| Acquisition: |
Unknown. |
| Language(s): | English |
| Use: | Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Worcester County Library which extends beyond “fair use”. |
| Preferred Citation: |
“Item, collection name, [Box #, Folder #,] Worcester County Library, Snow Hill Branch, Snow Hill, Maryland.” |
| Attribution: |
Finding aid written by Alec Staley, September 2019. |
| Related Materials: | None. |
| Separated Materials: | None. |
The Worcester High School Yearbook collection contains one 1967 yearbook from the Worcester High School. This yearbook includes many black and white photographs of students who attended Worcester High School. Included in the yearbook are photographs of the 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970 classes. There are also detailed information and photographs of all the clubs offered at Worcester High School.
The Worcester High School was built in 1953 at a cost of $845,000. It had an enrollment of 907 and served as the high school for all of Worcester County’s African American students. The Worcester High School closed in 1970 when Worcester County integrated. The building now houses the Worcester County Technical School.
Prior to 1953, African American students attended high school in Snow Hill at the Ross Street School. The Ross Street location also served as the elementary school before the era of the middle schools and integration in 1970. Elementary-age African American children in Berlin attended the Flower Street School; in Pocomoke they attended Church Street/Ross Street Schools. Cedar Chapel’s program for disabled students was located there from 1970 until 1986, when the Cedar Chapel program moved to its present site—an addition to the Snow Hill Middle School.
Yearbooks are dated based on the year of graduation rather than the academic school year (ex. Class of 1967 will be dated 1967 rather than 1966-1967). The Yearbooks are also organized chronologically.
Folders are listed by their location in each box; any given subject may be dispersed throughout the entirety of the collection.