Belvidere High School - Belvi Yearbook (Belvidere, IL)

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The very first publication, a small literary maga- zine 'lpublished bimonthly by the pupils of South High School, Belvidere, lllinois, ' was called The Sphinx. The Sphinx expressed the students' sense of humor in their iokes and anecdotes and also their serious side through their stories and poems. This Sphinx scarcely resembled in size or content the modern yearbook. Nevertheless, it was the initial link in a long chain of improvements in the evolution ofthe Belvi . The l9l2 Sphinx took a major step toward the develop- ment of our present day Belvi. lt added pictures-- pages of priceless memories. The yearbooks began looking more and more like today's.

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The Sphinx, typical of South Belvidere High School, was named simply the Yearbook in l9l3 at the consolidation of North and South Belvidere High schools. Steadily grow- ing in size and stature with the school, city, and nation, every Yearbook and Annual learned from previous years' experiences and added its year's own original and distinctive styling. By popular election in l9l9 the stu- dent body chose a new name for their year- book, significant and appropriate to Belvidere High School instead of the general title of Yearbook or Annual. This was the birth of our Belvi. These fifty volumes show the true tra- ditions of the school and have made a tradition of their own. From year to year the yearbook changes slightly, maybe enormously, even though the students, sports, and organizations must be re- corded. One year a new idea such as indi- vidual pictures for all the students receives so much comment and enthusiasm that today they seem essential. Each staff' strives for different ideas, new fields of interest, and a grand theme. So each of all the yearbooks varies from the others in its own special way and re- tains the elements typical of all. Together all the yearbooks throughout the last half century have shown spellbinding achievement in the presentation of Belvidere High School and its growing traditions.