Senior Year: Programs and Documents, 1954-1955

The Tecumseh High School Class of 1955 Collection contains primarily clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, and mementos from class members’ time in high school, as well as later alumni and reunion activities. Materials date from 1950 to 2014.

Series I, School Days, includes clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, mementos, and a few audio recordings (33rpm LPs) from class members’ time at Olive Branch School and the new Tecumseh High School, dating from 1950 to 1955. Materials in this series are organized chronologically by school year (if known) and then by type. A large amount of the clippings in this series focus on the basketball team, which was quite good during this time period. There are three scrapbooks in this series: one concerning basketball at Olive Branch and Tecumseh, 1950-1952; one created by Merrillyn Rinehart which includes various activities, 1951-1954; and one created by German exchange student Gudrun Klotz, which details many aspects of the exchange process, her senior year (1954-1955) at Tecumseh, and various travels throughout Ohio and the east coast while visiting the United States.

Series II, Alumni Activities, includes primarily materials pertaining to class reunions, such as planning documents as well as records of the events themselves, as well as alumni-related clippings, directories, photographs, and correspondence. Materials in this series date from 1955 to 2014.