Anyone looking for a long-lost classmate from Romulus High School can now find them on the Romulus Public Library website.
Jake Rynicki, head of Adult Services and Outreach at the Romulus library, recently completed the digitization of the high school yearbooks. Yearbooks from 1946 until 2018 can now be found in the online archives of the library, according to a prepared statement from library officials.
Library assistants scanned the yearbooks and Rynicki uploaded the past Romulus High School yearbooks to the library website.
Rynicki said the library staff will post yearbooks older than five years, in consideration of the underage and minor individuals often pictured in the books. The five-year timeline ensures that everyone featured in the yearbook is no longer a minor, he said.
Rynicki thanked Councilwoman Kathleen Abdo for helping the library locate lost yearbooks for the project and the Romulus Community Schools for providing yearbooks the library was missing. He also thanked the Historical Society in Romulus for providing them with a yearbook they needed.
He also thanked Kathy Smith and her National Honor Society students for scanning some yearbooks.
“I would lastly like to thank the hard-working library assistants here at the library for focusing on scanning the yearbooks before the scanner had to be returned, as well as their supervisor in assisting in scheduling them time to scan,” Rynicki said. “I hope you all check it out!”
