Flashback Friday - Pages From An Old South Windsor HS Yearbook

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — This periodic feature on South Windsor Patch will run under various titles, including Time Machine Tuesday, Wayback Wednesday and Throwback Thursday, depending naturally on its day of publication. The common theme is that each will contain pages from a South Windsor High School yearbook of the past.

The 2019 high school yearbook staff of the South Windsor High School, guided by Ed Duclos, had many yearbooks of the past, called Centurion, digitized for those alumni that may have lost their high school yearbook, for readers' enjoyment and as part of its efforts to preserve South Windsor's documents for future generations. We graciously thank them for allowing Patch to reprint some of those pages.

From the days when South Windsor and East Windsor shared Ellsworth High School, the East Windsor Historical Society has also digitized copies of the Ellsworthian, dating back to 1937.

All digitized yearbooks may be found at archive.org.

Today I have arbitrarily chosen a couple of pages from the 1990 Centurion, showing some members of the senior class. For full disclosure, I am from another town, so I have no idea who any of these people are. (We did live in South Windsor when we got married in the fall of 1996, but had bought a house and moved by the late spring of 1997).

Taking a gander at these mugs, a few thoughts come to mind, namely I'm glad to see mullets were still in style in the late '80s. The most obvious take, however, makes me repeat something I've said time and again over the years, and has at times brought me to the verge of tears.

"Why didn't I invest in Aquanet when I had the chance back in '87? I'd have been long retired by now!"