Gulf High School math teacher Jeff Miller has been busy recently uploading old GHS yearbooks. So far he has scanned or photographed every yearbook from 1940 (the first one) to 1977.
The uploaded yearbooks, which have been very popular, can be found as individual albums on the Facebook page of the West Pasco Historical Society, and, with somewhat higher resolution, on Flickr.
Mr. Miller plans to continue through at least the end of the 1970s.
Some interesting facts about the GHS yearbooks:
- The first yearbook, in 1940, was called the Corsair. Only 28 seniors are pictured. There were three cheerleaders, two girls and one boy.
- There was no yearbook in 1941, but in 1942 a second yearbook appeared, called The Buccaneer, and the volumes are numbered beginning with the 1942 yearbook.
- Some years in the 1940s and 1950s had no yearbooks.
- The 1964 yearbook is apparently the only one dedicated to a non-Gulf High School person. It was dedicated to the memory of President Kennedy, who was assassinated during the school year.
- The first yearbook to include any color photos was 1972.
- The 1974 yearbook is the most unusual. It is a combined yearbook for Gulf and Hudson high schools. While the new Hudson High School was under construction, Hudson High School students attended classes in the Gulf High School building in the 1973-74 school year and most of the 1974-75 school year. Gulf students attended classes in the morning and Hudson students in the afternoon.
Mr. Miller maintains the web sites for GHS and for the West Pasco Historical Society, where he is a board member. He also has a web site at fivay.org covering the history of Pasco County. He also maintains a web site covering the history of mathematical terminology, which is one of the leading web sites on the subject of the history of mathematics.
Below: some color photos from the 1972 yearbook.
