ENFIELD, CT — In this periodic series, Enfield Patch takes a trip back in time through publication of old photos, advertisements from some 1950s-1990s high school and junior high school yearbooks and 1960s to mid-1980s telephone directories.
A recent addition to the digital collection of the Enfield Historical Society on archive.org has been the reproduction of some junior high school yearbooks, some dating back to the 1920s. Since the Kosciuszko Junior High School yearbook of 1980 was featured last week, today we present its counterpart: a pair of random pages from the 1980 yearbook of John F. Kennedy Junior High School. You should be able to spot at least one familiar face.
Looking at these pages, there was apparently a rule at the time that male students must either wear a) a plaid shirt; or b) a collar that could take out an eye.
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Built in the late 1960s on Raffia Road, JFK and its crosstown counterpart, Kosciuszko Junior High, housed grades seven through nine until "The Big K" closed in 1982. In the fall of that year, ninth-graders began attending Enfield and Fermi high schools, and the seventh and eighth grades were consolidated into the JFK building.
Enfield Patch invites readers to share their memories of JFK in the comments section below.
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