Throwback Thursday - 1979 High School Graduation

Here I have more photo slides we have recently scanned and digitized. These slides, although they are older than the first few "Throwback Thursday" photos I posted, are in nicer shape, not deteriorated and the color is still true.  These were Kodak film and processing, and not Seattle Filmworks. My Dad shot them with a pocket sized Kodak instamatic using a cartridge of 110 film. That probably accounts for the graininess of the images.

I graduated from Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts in 1979.  We were a big class of baby boomers, with about 500 in the graduating class from the towns of Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland and Sterling.  There aren't many photos of my graduation.

The girls wore white robes, the boys wore dark green,

the colors of the "Mountaineers"

It looks like my Dad got up behind the stage for this shot.

The ceremony was held on the football field.

I became a high school graduate here!

The ubiquitous photo in front of the flowering mountain laurel.

Our neighborhood was full of mountain laurel

and every May and June lots of family photos were posed here

for Mother's Day, First Communions, Proms,

and Graduations!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday - 1979 High School Graduation", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 21, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/throwback-thursday-1979-high-school.html: accessed [access date]).