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It's graduation time again! 

Does seeing photos of  freshly-minted graduates get you nostalgic for your high school glory (or not so glorious, but none the less fun) days?

Is your high school yearbook long gone? Buried in a box in your mom's garage?  Lost in one of those *#xo#*#!!X floods?

If you graduated from a Maine Township high school in the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's you may be in luck.

Over on their Des Plaines Memory Facebook page, our sister blog, Des Plaines Memory, has a fun round up of Maine West grads circa 1960 - 1980.

All the photos were scanned from Des Plaines Public Library's yearbook collection. DPPL has Maine West Legend, Maine East Lens, Maine South Eyrie and (the now defunct) Maine North Saga yearbooks available for all to browse through.

Just stop by the 4th floor desk and ask a librarian for your yearbook of choice.

Though if you graduated with someone now-famous, you may want to call ahead to make sure we have a copy. Hillary Clinton (Maine South '65) and Harrison Ford's (Maine East '60) have sadly disappeared into the hands of online memorabilia sellers and fans. 

This is a reference collection which means you can browse the yearbooks to your heart's content here in the library  (hint: take pictures of pages with your cell phone), but may not check them out and take them home. You will need to leave an ID as collateral.  

Or maybe the idea revisiting your high school days makes you shudder. Perhaps you'll feel more comfortable amongst the graduates of these fictional yearbooks, instead: