All:
Our photography team is still catching up the treasure of pictures and old yearbooks sent to our offices by our esteemed alumni.
Here is a recent photo of Gallia, the only surviving structure of our old school. Our correspondents -- among them are Jean Remy, Michel Inoue and Franois Ronsin -- report that this is from September 2007.
Mr. Ronsin maintains a place on Vox, by the way, here.
-- the editors.
Our photo desk is still going over the vast library of material released by François Marchal (see this post).
We thought we'd pass along a couple more excerpts, these from the 1959-60 yearbook, a half-century ago, and the twilight period of the Villa as a French-language school. (By the by, clicking through on the images will get you to an original-size picture with better detail.)
One is struck by the humor suggested in the skiing shots and the fact that VSJ basketball pre-dated the Americanization of the school. The long-held belief that Villa basketball reached its apex a decade later, with the likes of Stephen McClintic, Tom Booth, Mike Litton (all '68) and Anson Dorrance ('69) must now be revisited.
-- the editors
François Marchal, one of our esteemed senior alumni from the Villa's French days, has taken the trouble to scan and preserve some VSJ yearbooks from the late 1940s to 1960-61.
It's a stagering amount of work that adds, significantly, to the school's history.
The collection can be found, in PDF format, here.
Two very modest sample are reproduced here.
