Collections manager Bryonie Mahé is looking for two high school annuals to fill the gap in its yearbook collection. The missing years are 1944-1945 and 1952-1953. The production of a school annual at SOSS began in 1943, spanning 70 years of history.
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The Oliver and District Heritage Society (ODHS) is actively on the look-out for two Southern Okanagan Secondary School annuals to fill an existing gap in its high school yearbook collection, according to society collections manager Bryonie Mahé.
“Fortunately the school has been able to assemble a full collection,” she explained, “but for safe measure we’d like to have two complete sets in the community. The years missing in our own collection which is housed in the Oliver Archives are the years 1944-1945 and 1952-1953. We’d like to change that.”
The production of a school annual at SOSS began in 1943 spanning 70 years of history for both students and the community. “Because they are a record of people and events in our history, these yearbooks are highly prized not only as a valuable historic resource but as a research tool.”
Donations from many community members throughout the years have been supported by targeted collecting, providing the society with this almost complete collection of SOSS annuals. Mahé noted that the annuals are available to the public for viewing on a year-round basis during regular archive hours.
Anyone interested in donating an annual for the years 1944-45 and 1952-53 or is able to assist in identifying who might have a copy can contact the archives at 250-498-4027 or at [email protected].
