145 Years
“JUST KIDS” Started in the 1920s, the IWA yearbook provides the most comprehensive history of the Academy from the student’s perspective. The early editions of the award-winning “Class Tattler” feature hand-drawn illustrations, literary works of art, and colloquialisms of a bygone era (see “dandy crowd of freshies” in the spread above). The youthful language of the student-writers jumps out of the page, bringing life 7
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and a refreshing student voice to major historical eras. Flipping through the pages of the yearbook takes you through the history of not just a school, but a city, state, and country. The spread above showcases a signed advertisement from then Mayor of Houston Walter Monteith, followed by a recap of library activities that begins with, “so far the depression hasn’t been too bad on the library.” With the explosion of desktop publishing in the last few decades, the IWA yearbook, renamed “The
Margil,” reflects the design and photographic capabilities now available, but also upholds the tradition of written coverage that showcases everything from reporting of events to first-person profiles. Sister Dympna enjoys flipping through the pages of time gone by: “It’s so interesting to see the difference between the styles of language and dress–even for sports–what they could wear and what they could not. But even still they were just kids.”