Yearbooks

Pasadena High School/Pasadena Junior College/Pasadena City College 

The library has physical copies of every yearbook between 1929 and 1968 when the publication ceased.  Although the high school officially became Pasadena Junior College in 1924, there was not a unified yearbook until 1929.  The Item Annual was created by lower classmen and the new upper classmen, grades 13 and 14, created The Pirate.  There were only two issues of The Pirate published, 1927 and 1928.  The Campus, although it did change names through the later years, was then the single yearbook for Pasadena Junior College.  All of these issues have been digitized.  We also have a surplus of physical copies in the 3rd floor rotunda which are freely available to library users to take with them.  

In 1941, as the country was preparing for war and monies for much else became scarce, the campus had to pony up $10,000 towards the cost of a long-awaited new student union or it would be scrapped.  It was decided that rather than the traditional yearbook, to reduce costs, students would produce three magazines during the year that would offer photos and terse copy.  Only two were produced and we have two copies of each in the locked cases.  These too have been digitized.  As to physical copies for users to take with them,  there are only one or two copies on the rotunda shelves.  Because of their fragility, they are becoming scarce.  

Muir High School/Muir College

Between September of 1946 and June of 1954, when there were too many students at PJC and too few Pasadena students to support five high schools, what had been John Muir Technical High School became John Muir College.  It is sometimes referred to as Pasadena Junior College’s west campus.  This campus had its own yearbook called the John Muir College Roundup.  We have the following issues: 1947, 1948, 1949 (titled 1948-49), 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953.  It is unclear if there was a 1954 publication, but if there was, we do not have a copy. 

Also, in the locked cabinets are the 1932, 1938 and 1939 issues of the Sequoian, which was the Muir High School’s yearbook.  As an aside, this was the high school that the Robinson brothers attended, but not during 1932, 1938, or 1939.   

These have not yet been digitized.