Naomi Kline Scrapbook, 1923-1934 | Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives and Special Collections

Scope and Contents: The Naomi Kline Scrapbook, spanning the years 1923-1934 (bulk 1930-1934), documents Kline’s life during high school, focusing on school activities, graduation, and her senior class trip to Washington D.C. In high school, Kline was involved in various performance groups, as well as the club Tri-Hi-Y. There is a program from her school trip to the Conowingo Dam from April 1932. There are also programs and photographs from student productions at the Elizabethtown High School, including a cast photograph from their 1933 production of “The Nut Farm” with two students in blackface. Additional programs include her high school commencement, a 1932 Elizabethtown High School orchestra performance, Junior-Senior banquets in 1932 and 1933, and a 1933 music festival with Lancaster County public schools. There are also photographs of Naomi in elementary school, with her sister Miriam, and with her Church of the Brethren Sunday School class. Additional items include Tri-Hi-Y song lyrics, newspaper clippings, a list of graduation gifts, classmate autographs, her senior schedule from the last week of school, dried flowers from performances and other special occasions, and “Deaths in the class of ’33.”