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Each year high schools across the nation celebrate the successes and triumphs of its students by capturing special moments that include photos and other keepsakes from teachers, classmates, and friends. A yearbook not only keeps the tradition of preserving cherished memories alive, but also serves as a historical record of students and faculty that can be shown to future generations. Alpine High School has a long yearbook tradition. In 2022, El Ocotillo, the high school yearbook, will mark its 80th anniversary with student creativity, fun times, and special moments. Yearbook advisor Vaughn Grisham came across the vintage 1938 yearbook that was sold online and found in a home in Del Rio. It belonged to a former Alpine ISD superintendent. Grisham noted there was no official high school campus until 1942, when the yearbook sequence started. “I have a 1947 yearbook, and there are girls in bikinis playing in the snow, and the snow is waist high!” exclaimed Grisham. “You get a real snapshot of what Alpine has been like, and there are some real surprising things.”
