We finally made it to the final blog post! To be completely honest, I didn’t realize this was the final week of the internship. I’ve been having so much fun coming in to scan things on campus that it’s become a part of my routine now. It didn’t hit me that this was my last day of scanning until I was driving home today. I hope I am still able to fit in aspects of this project into my upcoming fall semester. I’m definitely going to be very busy but I’d love any opportunity to work on the Howard Project again.
Today I joined Matt in CHDR and we scanned a yearbook that belongs to a family member of his! The book is from 1951 and in great condition compared to the other books we’ve scanned; not perfect but the pages aren’t falling apart as we work with them.
One of my favorite parts of this project has been seeing old pictures of the exterior of the school. It looks exactly the same as when I went there, so it brought back a lot of memories for me. I can’t believe I have pictures of myself in the same places as these students from nearly a century ago! I’m so glad the school is in a historical district so they can’t alter anything too much. It’s such a cool building!
One of my favorite pages from the yearbook was the page about the thespian troupe! If I remember correctly, they were troupe 177. Their thespian president was a girl named Peggy Pounds! I never actually joined the junior thespian troupe while I attended Howard, though I had many friends who did. I did end up joining my high school’s thespian troupe and I was president my senior year! I love theatre and Orlando High School’s productions have been mentioned a few times throughout the book (And in some of the scrapbooks we’ve scanned!) so I was so excited to see that page in the section that highlighted all the clubs and varsity teams.
The book itself was so well edited! It honestly looked surprisingly modern in some parts, but I feel like modern yearbooks draw a lot from the look of vintage books. I was very curious as to how they edited everything together back then since they didn’t have computers or software, so I googled it to see if anything came up. Someone on another blog post mentioned the very obvious origins of the term “copy and paste,” which is how they ended up including pictures in these books. Apparently, it was a very lengthy process!
I’m incredibly honored and happy to have been invited to this internship this summer. There were so many things I learned and so many things I didn’t expect! I’m hoping to use many of the skills I used going forward in my academic career, especially as I move into new internships.
Proud to be both a Howard Ranger and a UCF Knight,
-Kelsey R.
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