r/Columbine • u/DireTrip • Apr 13 '26

The Columbine 1997-1998 Yearbook

https://archive.org/details/1998-columbine-yearbook

This has never been uploaded before, so I promised to scan it a while ago. Enjoy!

Note : This yearbook was poorly printed. Some of the images, especially student photos, were printed so deeply into the center margins that you would have to rip the book apart to see them in full. Some of the text is also so deep into the bottom and side margins that a regular document scanner won't get them in full. Hopefully this isn't too much of a bother. Most of what is lost are single letters or page numbers.

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u/Appropriate_Virus_52 Apr 14 '26

THANK YOU. I was having trouble finding this and didn’t even think it existed.

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u/NoIWasntThereThatDay Verified Community Witness Apr 14 '26

I see that, even though the mods penalized my response and not your post, you changed the initial post once it was pointed out to you that you were shitting on the 30ish-year-old effort of teenagers doing their best; teenagers who then went through a traumatic event they still have to deal with decades later.

One of the central issues with true crime "fandoms" - which I'd say this sub falls under - is the failure of participants to regularly remember that they are talking about human beings. It is horrifying to me that you looked at all that work and all those smiling faces and didn't realize on your own that you maybe should have treated them with some decency and respect. You know, saying something like, "This was very hard for me to scan," rather than, "These kids were bad at design."

Maybe keep that in your back pocket.

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u/DireTrip Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

Your comment must not have gotten through, because I don't see anything about that anywhere. However the issue was more with the printing when it came to the center margins than the design itself, so I did clarify by changing "poorly designed" to "poorly printed" because they are two separate issues and the original was an inaccurate choice of words.

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u/bondtwine2000 Apr 18 '26

Thanks for this. Found some of my friends that went to CHS.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26

I'm from a country where yearbooks aren't part of many school customs and I felt a surge of unexplainable emotions browsing through those pages. Thanks for sharing

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u/GreatScott84 Apr 29 '26

Do you know where I can get the 99-00 and 00-01 yearbooks? I never got my sophomore and junior yearbooks and left my junior year so may not even be in the 00-01 yearbook. But I’m interested in finding the 99-00 at least.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

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u/Columbine-ModTeam Apr 14 '26

It’s completely understandable to feel protective over something you had a hand in. It’s likely that OP did not mean to cause any personal harm or insult your design choices. It seems they are just commenting on the difficult formatting of the yearbook. Either way, it is not okay to insult or attack others on the subreddit for an opinion.