Acres

The first official volume of the Stonehill yearbook was published in 1952, the year that the College’s first class graduated. Prior to that in annual volumes were published in 1949, 1950 and 1951. Students named the yearbook ACRES because Stonehill had an abundance of beautiful acreage. The yearbook’s mission statement was outlined in a foreword included in the first volume. It read in part: “No collection of words and pictures can fully describe the many varied experiences that make up four years of college. The quiet peace of the chapel, the long hours of lab, the endless research for term papers, cannot be recreated in a hundred and fifty pages of yearbook. Nor can the tenseness of a Greek drama or the vigor of a cafeteria bull-session be compressed between two hard covers. The most a college yearbook can hope to do is suggest the best of these experiences and let the memory of the reader recall them as vividly as they were lived.” The Stonehill College Archives is currently working on digitizing and yearbooks available as pdf files. Each file has been made accessible. If you have difficulty accessing these files, please email us at barchives@stonehill.edu