WE NEED THE FOLLOWING MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS:

1934, 1935, 1940, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1966, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007.

PLEASE E-MAIL US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE A YEARBOOK. 

WE WILL ACCEPT YEARS WE ALREADY HAVE AS SOME OF THE BOOKS IN OUR    COLLECTION ARE DAMAGED.

While The Historical Society of Mount Lebanon does not yet have a museum/history center, we do have a small, but significant, collection that we would like to see grow. In the past, we have been stymied by lack of storage space. That problem has been solved through renting a climate-controled, secured and insured storage facility. It is still far from ideal, but it allows us to collect items that might otherwise end up in the trash, at the Goodwill, or moldering away in an attic or basement.

Please think of us when you are spring-cleaning or when you are moving or when a loved one dies. Instead of throwing out your past—or the past of someone you love—see that it is preserved, cared for, and turned into a lasting legacy.

If you want to make a donation, remember the old saying about one man’s trash being another man’s treasure. While something might not seem historically significant to you, we ask that you let us be the judge. We have a collections committee who can make a final decision (and if you’d like to volunteer for the collections committee, call me at 412-561-0455).

The following is a list of what we’ve collected in just the past few months. The names of the donors are in parenthesis.  Maybe it will give you an idea.

We received two very special donations recently...
Virginia Nicklas, a Society board member, presented us with three scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and programs from local events (including a Mt. Lebanon Memorial Day program from 1936, items from the American Legion Auxiliary South Hills Unit No. 156, and a Woman’s Club of Mt. Lebanon bulletin from 1937). The items, which cover the period 1930 to 1938, are all related to Virginias’s father, John Nicklas, and family. The scrapbooks, which were compiled by Virginia’s mother, are contained in a lovely wooden box. We thank Virginia for donating this treasure trove of history to us.

The second donation came from the estate of Roy Dear, a Parker Drive resident who died in February. Roy, a local historian and collector, was born in Dormont and moved to Mt. Lebanon in 1940. There are far too many  items to list here, but the collection includes 66 Mt. Lebanon High School yearbooks—several are duplicates—from the very first one in 1931 to 1990.  This is a HUGE  step toward the society’s goal of obtaining every Mt. Lebanon High School yearbook.
    Also donated:

•     An album of old pictures and newspaper clippings relating to Mt. Lebanon—87 pages total!
•     Old newspaper articles
•     A 1985 street map of Mt. Lebanon
•     A framed photo of the June 1932 Mt. Lebanon High School graduating class
•     A 1960 calendar issued by Rollier’s       
•     A board game called: “The Game of Mt. Lebanon”
•     A 1932 High School diploma presented to Charles William Herald
•     A Mt. Lebanon High School theater program from 1932
•      Several Lebanon Lanterns (the high school paper) from the 1930s and 1940s

   
We thank Marie and Eleanor Carpenter for donating these wonderful pieces of our past.