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More Added! June 2008
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Welcome to the MHS
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Journeyman Covers Page!
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See What Your Old Yearbooks Look Like,
Since You Probably Lost Yours By Now!
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Hello to Alumni!
The Mendham High School Journeyman yearbooks were the highlight
of the end of every school year. Remember all the excitement when
the day came to get your copy? And of course, you had to flip through
and see how many places
your own photo appeared, and if your hair looked good or not!
And then you would run all over getting everyone to sign
it, even teachers? Those were the days!
So jump ahead to today,
and where are your Journeyman
yearbooks now? Well, I bet quite a few of us lost them over the years.
But for those of
us who do have them, chances are they been through heck in our lives
since graduation!
And if you flip through your yearbooks now, you
probably have no clue who the half the people who signed it are -
and everyone wrote you were "friends forever", too. And your more boring friends, as
well as the teachers who must remain professionally distant,
would always sign the yearbooks with "Have a nice summer" (yawn). And
trying to decipher our sloppy teenage writing - yikes!
Anyways,
go find a #2 pencil
and a Scantron test, and complete
the following question:
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Question #72. What happened to all your Journeyman yearbooks?
A. They are in storage and they smell real bad
B. You abandoned them years ago in your parent's attic or basement
C. Your kids scribbled in them with purple crayon
D. You threw them out in the trash when you were cleaning house after your 3rd move
E. In the lean years after college, you burned your yearbook to keep warm
F. All of the above
G. A and C but not D but maybe B and perhaps E
H. What the heck are Scantron Tests?
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Ok, enough of the pop quiz!
(we don't want to be reminded too much of those anyways.)
Since many of us haven't seen our old yearbooks in a long time, on this
webpage are pictures of the covers of the Journeyman yearbooks through
the 35 plus years at Mendham High. Now you can remember what yours used to look like,
so if you ever stumble upon it in the junk in your attics or basements, you'll
recognize it! And
each yearbook cover is unique and somewhat
represents the time period. Some covers are plain; some are very loyal to the school;
some are artistic; and some are just really odd!
When I first started this page in 2006, I only had about half of the yearbooks.
Thanks to some very kind alumni out there who emailed covers (and lots
of hard work hunting some down by my friend Susan), they are ALL HERE!!
Every single yearbook, well except the 2008 one since it's new.
But the rest are all present and accounted for!
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So below are the yearbooks,
along with a description of what I think the
cover is about. But I admit, some covers are very strange, baffling, and
just downright confusing. What were some of us thinking!
Mendham High opened in September of 1970, so
the first yearbook is from June of 1971.
Enjoy the journey through the Journeymans!
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| Note to Class of '81:
THANK YOU!!! Can't thank you
enough for
emailing that last missing cover so quickly! :)
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1971 |
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Starting things off, here is the very first yearbook of
the new Mendham High! And well, it's quite plain and to the point -
It says "Journeyman" and 1971, and nothing else!
This yearbook is also quite thin in size, since there
was no senior class to take nice photos of!
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1972 |
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Uh .... this cover is ... freaky!! What the heck is this?
I guess it's a face in the Sun, and the face looks sort of mean.
What on Earth is this suppose to be? Is this an album cover or
something?
Does this have significence to Mendham somehow?
Well, perhaps we will never know.
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1973 |
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The 1973 yearbook has a textured dark blue background.
And appearing here for the first time on the cover is a
Minuteman, the school's icon and mascot. Written on the cover
is "Journeyman 1973".
And that's about it!
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1974 |
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Cover Design: Here is the
1974 yearbook, and I admit I am quite confused by the cover.
Is this a ribbon, a bow? Maybe it's the knot
in our stomachs that we all felt sometimes while attending MHS?
But someone told me that the ribbon was actually the initials
of the yearbook editor? Would would have known!
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1975 |
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Cover Design: Here is 1975, and once again
I am clueless to the meaning on the cover.
What the heck is this?
Gears? Some geometric thing? I just don't get it.
(Will someone from '75
email me and tell me? Thanks!)
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1976 |
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Cover Design: Ok, I know this one!
Though it's hard to see, the
The Declaration of Independance is written all
across the cover! Very patriotic, as
it's the Bicentennial of our country this year.
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1977 |
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Cover Design: Nice blue cover here!
Decorating it is (I think) the silhouette of half a tree (not
sure what happened to the other half), and
a little acorn, too! Perhaps the acorn fell off that tree.
Must be an oak, then!
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1978 |
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Cover Design:
Awww! This is so cute! Here is a puppy listening
to albums on a phonograph! (But I assure you, we all
did have normal record
players in the 1970's, though!) But perhaps he is listening
to "78"s, in honor of the year 1978! Yeah, I bet that's it!
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1979 |
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Cover Design:
Here is 1979! It's all red, and has three photos done in shadows and
contrasts. The pictures all show some happy students laughing and smiling,
having a nice time at school. Aw, how sweet!
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1980 |
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Cover Design:
This cover is easily recognizable to us older folks -
here are the orange doors that we all entered every day!
This yearbook is also the 10th anniversary of the school, so
there's lots of rememberance info inside. Sadly, the
orange doors are red/brown nowadays!
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1981 |
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Cover Design:
1981 has a dark, classy looking cover. And appearing
on the cover
for the 1st time is the Mendham High emblem. It's got
an anvil, acorns, a feather pen, arrows and a Minuteman. Yep, important stuff
to Mendham kids! The emblem also appears on many later yearbooks.
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1982 |
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Cover Design:
This one is short and to the point. It says 1982 and
"Journeyman". It's blue. That's it. Not exactly
thought-provoking or inspiring, but it gets the job done.
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1983 |
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Cover Design:
Well, let's see. This cover is white and red. It has
"Journeyman" and 1983 written on it. Yep. That's it!
Perhaps they spent too much $$$
building the Auxiliary Gym so there wasn't any funds left for
a fancy yearbook cover.
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1984 |
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Cover Design: Here in 1984,
the cover has a bunch of bright colored lines and the Mendham High emblem.
The school emblem looks different here, as it changes in later yearbooks.
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1985 |
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Cover Design: This cover shows
an unraveling reel of movie film, spread across the
cover. Maybe it represents the drama of our teen lives,
or how the yearbook tells the storyline of that year! So, are
you still preoccupied with 1985?
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1986 |
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Cover Design: I like this one! The
cover is made to look like a spiral bound notebook
with common school sayings on it! Sayings include "Minutemen",
"Tender Years", and "Party Tonight!", which sums up the year!
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1987 |
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Cover Design: Here's an hourglass with the sands of time passing away.
This reminds me of the great philosopher Macdonald Carey, who spoke the
thought-provoking words
"Like the sands through the Hourglass, so our the Days of our Lives ...."
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1988 |
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Cover Design: This is my senior
yearbook, and honestly, my class wasn't very exciting here!
it shows the Mendham High emblem, with red and blue lines over the
cover. Did you know the emblem has four acorns on it? Were
acorns important to your high school life?
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1989 |
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Cover Design:
Here's another cover loyal to the Mendham High
emblem, along with some red lines. The emblem is
in red and gold. The emblem almost looks like a door
knock, though I don't remember any door knocks on the orange
doors around the building?
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1990 |
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Cover Design:
This is Elvis Costello, playing the guitar!
I don't remember him being super popular back then,
but perhaps he was! I rather it had been Buddy Holly,
he was a far more recognizable icon!
The Class of 1990 must love their music!
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1991 |
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Cover Design:
Wow! This is one BIG and BOLD cover! Don't need glasses to read this!
This is the 1990-1991 Mendham Journeyman yearbook, and the cover gets that
point across loud and clear!
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1992 |
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Cover Design:1992 starts a new era in
yearbooks. This is the first of many that are very artistic,
and shiny, too! This cover shows
a painting of
the Philosopher Diogenes holding
a lantern, with his sheep, as he looks for an honest student. MHS's own
art teacher Harry Douglas
painted this.
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1993 |
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Cover Design:
This cover shows Amelia Earhart, someone who
really journeyed!
This cover was also painted
by art teacher Harry Douglas.
This cover is based
on a famous photo of Amelia.
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1994 |
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Cover Design:
Like in 1987, it's an hourglass, but this one has more
detail to it. There is no sand; inside the hourglass
is a reflection of the face of a clock (probably the new
clock tower at MHS, I assume!). That's why
you see numbers in there! Took me awhile to notice
that - very cool!
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1995 |
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Cover Design:
This one looks like a bulletin board with a mirror showing
a reflection of the new Clock Tower,
plus a photo of happy students!
But if a bulletin board's mirror really reflected the school at that angle,
it would be in the middle of the parking lot (and get run over often!).
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1996 |
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Cover Design:
This one is .. uh ..interesting!
It seems to be a cocoon on a branch, and emerging is a
very muscular human arm?? I guess the concept of human
cocoons was important back then at MHS?
Maybe a metamorphosis theme? Hmmmmm ...
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1997 |
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Cover Design:This is a tranquil cover.
It shows a path wandering by a tree, heading
towards the sunrise. Could be a sunset too, I guess? But a sunrise sounds more positive!
Maybe the sunset of our high school lives, the sunrise of our adult selves?
That's deep, man!
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1998 |
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Cover Design: Blast off with Mendham High!
Very unique cover, with a very unusual theme - space!
It shows the moon (or perhaps a planet),
with a space buggy, and a satelite dish to boot!
Going to space is quite a journey, maybe the ultimate one!
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1999 |
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Cover Design:
Deja-vu! Mendham kids must like paths and trees!
Here is another tree/path
themed cover.
It shows a road among
the trees - perhaps
heading towards the end of the Millennium!
The theme to the yearbook
is "The Road of Life", and a student (now alumni)
painted this - pretty cool honor!
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2000 |
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Cover Design:
Starting in 2000, the yearbooks change styles.
The covers have a more upscale yet simple look, and a
profound slogan to inspire us.
This one has the emblem in gold on it, and
it says "The Journey Begins". (Yeah, the journey to
college, starting careers, paying taxes, worrying about health benefits,
401Ks, hiding gray hairs ....)
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2001 |
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Cover Design:
Continuing the trend started with the 2000 yearbook,
this cover is also formal looking.
It shows a gold engraving of the
front of the school, along with the saying
"It's About Time". Yeah, it's about time to graduate and
grow up, and get out of there, I guess!
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2002 |
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Cover Design:
Very oddly, this yearbook is almost a clone of the 2001
cover.
It shows a silver engraving of Mendham High, with the saying
"A Look Back, A Step Forwards". Perhaps Mrs. Nutt on the
yearbook committee got a 2-for-1 special for those 2 years!
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2003 |
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Cover Design: This is one
of the plainest covers in years, and one of the
most brightly colored, too!
It shows the emblem
in blue on a red background, with the saying "Every Ending is a New Beginning".
At least this bright yearbook will be easy to spot in your attic
years later. Good thinking, Class of 2003!
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2004 |
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Cover Design:
The 2004 yearbook looks suspiciously familiar -
it appears to be a red-colored clone of the 2000 yearbook!
Like many other recent yearbooks, this one has an
inspirational quote for us to ponder -
"Memories of the past, Dreams of the future".
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2005 |
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Cover Design: This cover
has a different look from the years before, as it's more artsy.
It also is very loyal to the school's icons!
It shows the Mendham
High Sign, MHS emblem, a "M" for Minutemen, and the Clock Tower too!
It says "Hold on to these Moments as they Pass".
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2006 |
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Cover Design: This cover
returns to the plain upscale look. This cover theme
is just really dark, yet simple and somewhat intense to me.
The cover has the outline of the clock tower,
plus the mystical saying "Echoes of Yesterday". The
clock says it's 2:05, which is exactly the same time on the
clock on the 2005 yearbook. Coincidence? Interesting!
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2007 |
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Cover Design:
Following the more recent trend, this yearbook is
simple and plain. The cover is baby blue, with
a big "M" for Mendham, and has the words "Journeyman" and
"2007" overlapping. Strangely, the Class of 2007 didn't put
a profound
slogan on the cover. Now we have nothing to think about.
Oh well!
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2008 |
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Coming soon!
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So that concludes
the 35-plus year journey through time (and apparently
space, too) of the West Morris Mendham High School Journeyman yearbooks. I know some
of my descriptions are probably totally wrong or badly misinterpreted, as
I am just a plain old alumni like most of you with no inside connections to those ultra
powerful people on the yearbook commitees. And
I admit to being very clueless at times, especially about artsy things!
Anyways, if you want to take pity on me and help correct or help identify something, email me at my address listed below!
I personally own the 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980 (thanks, Susan!), 1984, 1985, 1986,
1987, 1988, and 1990 yearbooks, if anyone needs anything looked up!
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* A BIG THANKS to members of the Class of 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1993
for emailing photos of some covers I couldn't get my hands on!
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The absolute address of this page is http://home.att.net/~suelighthouse/journeyman.html
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Updated: June 2008
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Sue Willis (Class of '88) - doing the research and html, with the help of
many generous alumni. I'm a local librarian, also member of the Mendham Borough Historical Society, too -
trying to preserve some Mendham memories!
Email at:
suelighthouse@att.net suelighthouse oldmendhamhigh
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