A Bit About Central High School "Salemite" Yearbooks & Periodicals

It appears that yearly high school yearbooks, focused on the graduating senior class with a preponderance of class and organized activity pictures were not published until the mid to late 1930s.  Before then, "The Salemite", a literary publication by the students and faculty, was published on a regular basis 4 times a year.  The tradition of periodic publication of "The Salemite", a newspaper-like and literary publication seems to have continued on-and-off until the school closed in 1962 (as samples on this website attest).

The Salemite publication shown here is marked "Commencement Number" & Volume IV, No. 4, implying that:

1. the first issue was in the 1926-1927 school year - the same period when the Purdys Central High School was built (see the stone carving on one of the building's cornerstones),
2. there were (usually) 4 issues per year.

The first graduating class was in 1930 as documented in the Salemite yearbook publication that herein follows.

Pier "Peter" Guidi, '62
Website author, Dec. 2012.