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Ad Rates / Articles / Classified Ads / Editorial / Home / Links / Showtime   Antiques and Collectibles Articles   Follow the arrows to other stories Wayback Times store reunites lost yearbooks and original owner   Elaine Stewart was fresh out of high school in Mississauga in 1990 when three of her treasured high school yearbooks vanished from her room.   Her younger sister later owned up to loaning the Thomas L. Kennedy Secondary School yearbooks to a friend and never got them back.   Elaine, a popular high school student, had a lot of friends autograph the yearbooks and write messages wishing her all the best in future years. She thought the yearbooks were history.   A few weeks ago, Elaine was surfing the Internet looking for a former T.K. Kennedy teacher when she found a Wayback Times story and saw a list of yearbooks for sale.   And there, she read: "Kennedy 87, published by the students and staff of Thomas L. Kennedy Secondary School. All 128 pages in this hardcover yearbook are intact and in excellent condition. There are autographs and notations to an "Elaine" throughout the yearbook. Photos in colour and black and white. TLK 88 is also available etc."   Getting in touch with the seller, Elaine said to mark those yearbooks as "sold" because "I am the Elaine in the yearbooks. It will be great to have the books back. I figured they were lost forever."   Elaine then explained how the yearbooks got away from her in 1990 in Brampton (and somehow ended up at a Corneil's auction sale in Little Britain, near Lindsay.)   "From what I recall, one of my sister's friends had a little crush on a guy who happened to be in the yearbooks. From what my sister told me, she loaned them to her and never saw them again.   "I was searching for a former T.L. Kennedy teacher and ended up on your yearbook site by mistake. That's when I spotted the '87 and '88 yearbooks (I was there from '85 to '89). Thought it would be neat to get them just to have the pictures of old classmates and friends.   "Never in a million years did I think that they would actually be my personal yearbooks. Then I read 'Elaine' and knew they were mine. I couldn't remember any other Elaine during that time. What a great surprise. It was amazing.   "I don't know what the odds are of these books still kicking around, let alone actually finding them without even trying. I am still blown away by this."   After her yearbooks arrived safely (including a 1986 TLK yearbook that wasn't listed), Elaine said: "I can't even begin to tell you how weird it feels to be looking at these again. Brings back a lot of great memories.   "As much as I thought I remembered most people that were important in my life back then, there were many people I hadn't thought about in years. If you still have your own yearbooks with you, I would highly recommend taking a look every once and a while. It's a lot of fun.   "Thanks again for taking the time to collect yearbooks the way you do, and posting them," she told the seller. "I hope you end up with more stories like mine.   "I have told my story repeatedly to friends and family over the passed couple of weeks. No one can believe the incredible amount of luck to actually come across them in such a fashion."   Return to top of page   This Is Livin' Publishing © 2007 581 8th Line West, RR1 Hastings, ON, K0L 1Y0 Phone/Fax: 705-696-1833   webmaster