Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Hellenic School Magazine, 1989

I was rummaging through some stuff at my parents' house last week, and found a copy of Harare Hellenic School's first school magazine, circa 1989. It was produced by my grade 7 class, I think as a class exercise — I remember that we had a production line doing all the stapling, etc. I just had to scan it.

The original was produced in a banda machine on the recycled paper that was typical of Zimbabwe in the 1980s and early 90s. Unfortunately that means it hasn't aged well — the paper has yellowed and the pale blue ink has faded a lot. On my copy the first page is torn, and unfortunately the lower half is missing. I think there was also a (hand-drawn) school crest on a missing front cover page.

The scan I've made is about 30MB and is a greyscale PDF. It's partly an effort to preserve this document before it deteriorates any further, and partly so we can poke fun at ourselves 25 years on.

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