Lafayette Jeff’s ‘Booster:’ Now digitized back to 1913
Project took years of work and community donations to preserve student papers dating more than a century ago. (Yes, your prom is in there.) Plus other notes this morning.
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A few notes this morning …
LAFAYETTE JEFF’S ‘BOOSTER:’ DIGITIZED THROUGH THE YEARS
Be honest, are you really ready to re-read that quote you gave to The Booster when you were a senior at Lafayette Jeff?
Of course, you are.
After three years of work, including a crowdfunding effort by teachers and Lafayette Jeff alumni, issues of the student-reported Booster dating to 1913 have been digitized via the Hoosier State Chronicles maintained at the Indiana State Library.
“Like an orchestra in perfect unison with each musical piece, so too was the archiving achievement of the Booster newspapers from 1913 to May of 2024,” Chuck Herber, a Lafayette Jeff teacher and Booster adviser, said this week. “No other school in Indiana has made such a grand achievement. The work of (former Lafayette Jeff teacher) Andy Dooley, (Booster alum) Lindsey Sickler, many donors and the writings of hundreds of students have created a journalistic masterpiece.”
The project included editions of The Monitor, the original school newspaper before it was renamed The Booster in 1922. Herber said the project covered an expanse of more than 8,400 pages.
