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 A few weeks ago we were given a good copy of the 1925 Dial Year Book of Brattleboro High School.
It's a great document so we've started putting it in the Brain Trust for everyone to enjoy. I think some of you are going to see relatives here, based on some of the names I was seeing.
You can get a sneak peek by looking through the gallery of new images. Right now they are just images. We'll eventually transcribe them into text for easy searching and create a special page for them. Until then, click on any image to enlarge.
Why is this yearbook so great? Many reasons.
 Brattleboro High School Boys Basketball Team
It's a time machine to the middle of the 1920's.
There are excellent photos of handsome young men and beautiful young women, accompanied by their nicknames, class quotations, what they will be remembered for , and their student activities and awards.
The clubs and teams were photographed on the steps of the high school, now our Municipal Center. The orchestra was inside the building, somewhere, with busts high up on the wall. The poses are perfect.
You can read the schedule for commencement, see photos of teachers, and read an array of interesting articles by the Dial staff.
Want to know about girls? How about a day in the life of a freshman? Will this new invention called radio lead to world peace, or at least more democracy? These articles await you.
From the future, 1940, comes the class prophecy. Care to read the students last will and testaments? An ad for the Latchis Theater and their organ music? It's all here.
Poke around, and let me know who and what you find that interests you.
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"Every age brings forth new inventions and discoveries, many of which
play an important part in the history of a nation and the world. One is
reminded of the printing press, the steam engine, the telephone, the
electric light, radium and many others. Today another is added to the
list. Three years ago radio was considered a "craze." Many thought it
would not last, but the more sagacious saw it in its true value, an
epoch-making discovery and invention.
Within a few years the United States will realize the changes wrought
by this phenomenon. Even now through this new medium democratic
America is becoming more democratic. The people are beginning to be
acquainted with the "radio voices" of the nominees for the higher
public offices...
...The United States Congress is the one great political body whose
sessions are not broadcast. The voters know little of what their
representatives do and say in Congress. Is it not right for them to
insist that the sessions of that body be broadcast? The people wish
loyal representatives in Congress. Listening to them speaking in that
representation tells the people whether or not they are carrying out
their pre-election promises. Newspapers print briefs of what the
speakers say but oftentimes a great deal of the original speech is left
out. The voters have no direct proof of what is going on and as it is
their Congress which is making their laws why shouldn't they have a
silent part in the proceedings."