Contrails 75 Yearbook Hinkley High School Aurora Colorado 1975

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Offered here is an original 1975 'Contrails' yearbook from William C. Hinkley High School in Aurora, Colorado, Volume XII. This is a genuine period piece capturing student life, athletics, faculty, and clubs from the 1974-1975 school year at one of Aurora's prominent high schools. The book features a distinctive royal blue leatherette hardcover embossed in silver with a stylized tree motif and the title 'contrails 75.' Beautiful full-color autumn landscape endpapers add a warm, scenic touch to the interior, which is filled with black and white photography documenting campus life, sports teams including football, basketball, and baseball, as well as student portraits and club photos. This yearbook is heavily personalized with handwritten inscriptions and signatures from numerous classmates and student athletes, many including their jersey numbers and graduation years ('76, '77, '78). The book appears to have belonged to a student named 'Wendy,' as several inscriptions are addressed to her. This level of personalization makes it a lively and authentic time capsule of mid-1970s high school life in Colorado. Physically, the book is in Good condition. The leatherette cover displays notable surface wrinkling and creasing from decades of storage, and the binding corners show light fraying. Interior pages are aged and yellowed at the edges, as expected for a 50-year-old publication, but remain fully intact and legible throughout. A small vintage plastic toy tennis racket charm with a

• Publisher: William C. Hinkley High School, Aurora, Colorado
• Year: 1975
• Condition: Fair

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