Vincent Price High School Yearbook & Grad Program '29

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This is Vincent Price's own high school yearbook and commencement program from 1929!The Codasco, 1929, was the St. Louis Country Day yearbook, of which Vincent Price was the Art Editor. He drew many small images to represent different sections of the yearbook and caricatures of each member of the class.He came in second in class voting for the handsomest member of the class. On his senior page, his intended college (Yale) is listed; his tenure at Country Day (six years); and his activities--soccer team, troubadours, track squad, and art editor of Codasco. T is also a baby picture, a caricature of himself playing the piano, and his quote: "Isn't that the nerts?"This is what was written about Price: Vinnie is the artist of the Senior class. His ability in this line has not only won him a post on the Codasco, but also makes him the central attraction in the study period when he rapidly distributes pictures of good looking girls. "Carrie's" good acting and musical talent have earned him success when handling major roles in the Troubadours' last tow production; and as for his athletic ability, that is the main reason why many Burrough's supporters had to add another moral victory to their collection after a spirited encounter between the schools on the soccer field. Vincent aims (be is said to no avail) to leave the school a record for having ridden on the special the fewest times in a single year, as he has had to ride ton but four times to date. He is also well known among his schoolmates for his inexhaustible supply of stories about his European trip last summer. The book is inscribed in the front by Vincent's father (Vincent Leonard Price, Sr.). It reads: Vincent L. Price Jr. Class of 1929 Entered 1923 - 6 Years Also included is the commencement program for Vincent's graduation.The book measures 7 1/4" x 10" and is 147 pages long. It is in excellent condition.This is an incredible collector's item for a Vincent Price fan!!!About St. Louis Country Day and its notable alumni:Mary Institute & St. Louis Country Day School or "MICDS" is a secular, co-educational, private school for about 1,200 students in grades K-12. Its 100 acres campus is located in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, one of Missouri's wealthiest-per-capita cities. The school has strong academic tradition and sends the vast majority of its graduates to prestigious four-year colleges.HistoryWilliam Greenleaf Eliot, founder and chancellor of Washington University, established MICDS' predecessor institutions in the 1850s as part of the university. A boys' school, Smith Academy, was founded in 1854, and was later attended by the future poet T.S. Eliot. A sister school, Mary Institute, was founded in 1859 and was named for Eliot's deceased daughter. It was the first girls' school west of the Appalachians.Smith Academy closed in June 1917; most of its students transferred to a successor school, independent of a university, which opened that September in northwestern St. Louis County. Called St. Louis Country Day School, or CODASCO for short (a nickname still used by the boys' athletic teams, much to the chagrin of school administrations), it was set up along the lines prescribed by the Country Day School movement. CODASCO's campus was in a bucolic environment reached by rail that seemed far from the urban grit of the old Smith Academy.Mary Institute moved to its Ladue campus in 1931 and became independent of Washington University a few years later. By the 1950s, the tranquility of the Country Day campus was disrupted by the growth of the adjacent Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport. Codasco built a new campus next Mary Institute, sold its old land to the airport and moved to Ladue in 1958. Eliot's grandson, Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, who attended Mary Institute's kindergarten and Smith Academy, spoke at the school's centennial in 1959.Although various connections, including theatrical cooperation, had existed between Mary Institute and Codasco for years, academic coordination be... read more

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