Belvidere High School - Belvi Yearbook (Belvidere, IL)

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lareari in jiffg yQ6ll'600L5 . .7rac!ifion g ul' This Anniversary Belvi is the fiftieth year- book publication of Belvidere High School. For the past half century the senior class has pre- sented a yearbook or annual recording the high- lights of the year. Each volume not only gives an accurate account of the year's activities, but remarkably reveals the year's personality in its expressions of styles and fads. Through these years even the yearbooks have displayed endless variety. However, shining throughout all the pages, there are in each yearbook certain simi- larities and constant factors which have formed the tradition of Belvidere High School.

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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.