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Subject: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 3:30 am
Hi guys! After a couple of postal issues and much anxiety, I finally received the yearbook I bought from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]! This is the complete 1996 Columbine yearbook, featuring an inscription from Eric Harris himself. As most of you know, Jennifer was friends with Eric between the 7th grade and the 10th grade. If you want to know more, there are several threads created by Jennifer in which she answers some questions forum members had. So yeah, I thought I'd share some photos of the book for anyone who's interested or hasn't seen Eric's message yet. I've included some yearbook photos of Eric and Dylan, as well as Kevin Harris (including one I hadn't yet seen), and a bonus inscription from Alyssa Sechler, a friend and reported crush of Eric's(?). I hope the pics are okay. I'm so excited to share them with you! Here you go...
Eric's inscription.. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Eric's signature.. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
This is the photo of Kevin I hadn't seen before. With his football team, dead centre. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Bonus Alyssa Sechler inscription... [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Hope these photos are good to be going on with. I plan on scanning the yearbook as there doesn't seem to be a complete digital version anywhere, but it may take me a while. I've got to say, I was shocked at how big the book is!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:11 am
Thank you [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for some of the pictures.
Looking forward to a complete digital copy of it.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:14 am
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it. There were a couple of pics I hadn't seen before. Wonder who Michelle was.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:19 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] No problem! I'm guessing Michelle was a mutual friend (or definitely a friend of Jennifer's) as I noticed an inscription from a 'Michelle' in the book, as well as another inscription that mentioned her name.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:22 am
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Thank you [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for some of the pictures.
Looking forward to a complete digital copy of it.
You're welcome! I'll get to it asap. It's a big book!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:28 am
If she still went to Columbine in 1999, these are the possible Michelle's from that year:
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:37 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Fortunately, (as you can see around Eric's freshman photo) Jennifer highlighted the names and photos of her friends in the yearbook, and I can only see one Michelle highlighted, so I'm guessing that must be the girl in question. Her name isn't on the list you posted, so perhaps she left the school before 1999.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:26 am
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:49 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] That's the one! Wow, she's gorgeous in her senior pic. Wonder why Eric said she needed help, haha.. must have had a pretty interesting personality!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:06 am
Michelle was in the choir room on 4/20/99 and escaped with another girl through the Main Entrance.
Page 005120:
I asked Linda [van Damme] to describe where she was seated inside the choir room. She told me that she was sitting in the soprano section and the risers they were seated on were on the south side of the choir room, closest to the exit. Linda was asked who was seated next to her. She told me on her left side was Alicia Juarez and on her right side was Michelle Romero.
Page 003154-003155:
Rebecca Goodwin left the cafeteria by running up the stairs, east down the south main hall, and into the auditorium from a door on the southeast side. There was a teacher in the auditorium who was telling the students to hide in the back of the auditorium. Goodwin estimates that there were 30 students in the upper end of the auditorium. Goodwin saw Stefania Ubowski and Samantha Haviland hiding in the auditorium as well. Goodwin was in the auditorium only a few minutes, when Michelle Romero grabbed her hand and they ran out the northeast door of the auditorium into the north main hall. There were a lot of students in the hall. Goodwin and Romero ran east down the north main hall toward the main entrance to the school. When they were 10-15 feet from the inner door of the main entrance, one of the windows on the left side of the door shattered. Goodwin does not know what made the window shatter. Goodwin and Romero continued out the main entrance, through the teachers' parking lot, and to Clement Park. Goodwin recalls that Mr. Peterson was in the teachers' parking lot directing the students to Clement Park.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:55 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Interesting! Jennifer said she was in the choir room too, if I recall correctly. Thanks a bunch for the info. You're so good at this, haha.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:29 am
Yes you are correct [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], Jennifer did say she was in the choir room.
However, Jennifer didn't get out of the school as quickly/early as Michelle did.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 3:50 pm
I always thought Eric looked really handsome in that photo.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:27 pm
That's amazing, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Thank you for sharing!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:51 pm
Thanks for posting these! That book sure is thick!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:30 pm
shades wrote:
I always thought Eric looked really handsome in that photo.
I agree! It's a good picture.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:36 pm
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] You have no idea! It's so heavy.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:48 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], have you been scanning the yearbook yet?
How many pages is it? around 300?
Are you going to upload the yearbook as individual jpeg's?
Thanks again for doing this.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 4:14 am
I don't envy you that task. It took me about an hour trying to scan the two class photos to a decent standard!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:58 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Not yet, as I'm quite busy with university, but I will start soon. Yes, there are about 270 pages, plus some kind of small magazine-type thing at the back. How would you like me to upload the yearbook? Any tips/recommendations?
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] It is a task I'm scared to begin, haha.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:02 am
The digital copy of the 1999 Yearbook (320 pages) was uploaded as individual scanned jpegs of each page.
That may be the easiest way for you as well.
Please do high quality scans.
Whatever works for you [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
Thank you so much once again!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:38 pm
Can't wait to put a face to some of the names!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:36 pm
I am late as always but thank you so much to Froggy and Jennifer for letting us see this book!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:32 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] thank you so much for sharing! These are great pictures. I'm sure it will be quite a task scanning this huge book, I'm looking forward to it though!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:15 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thanks for your comments, guys! Glad you liked the pics. I'll do my best to get it all scanned as soon as I can. I'll have to do it a little bit at a time due to uni and whatnot.. Boo.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:16 am
yeah, it`s amazing, Thanks for sharin` I`m new, btw, have a good day to everyone
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:37 am
Hey [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]! Thanks so much, glad you like the photos! Welcome to the forum. Quick question - have you ever drawn Columbine artwork? I feel like I recognise your username.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:38 am
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:10 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], yeah, it`s me, I have a tumblr acc, It has the same mane) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], thanks a lot) how it's a small world)
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:17 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Just looking on your page right now. I must say your art is exceptional! Your style is gorgeous and you capture their likeness in every piece. Wow.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:40 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] It depends on my inspiration) thanks god or what ever, Columbine inspired me on creation, not shootings, as "some" others, means copycats or whatever.. and thank you)
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:54 am
For some reason it's going around that the photos of Eric and Dylan in this book are from their sophomore year, but no, these are their freshman yearbook pictures. They're in the 9th grade, finishing their first year at Columbine (1995-1996). Just wanted to clear that up!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:55 pm
Thanks for this!
Gotta say it's interesting looking at Eric's pic in higher resolution. He doesn't look like he hates life here and like he has negative thoughts.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:25 pm
thedude11 wrote:
Thanks for this!
Gotta say it's interesting looking at Eric's pic in higher resolution. He doesn't look like he hates life here and like he has negative thoughts.
This is before he became his alter ego "Reb". You can see that in his junior year, he no longer signs his name, Eric Harris. It seems that by then, to him, Eric was gone and he was Reb now. Its interesting seeing this, I feel like he became Reb, in 1997.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:40 pm
Just noticed the poor girl next to Dylan had her eyes closed!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:18 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]...me too!! That was one of my worst nightmares when I was having school pictures taken! I was always so afraid I would blink and screw it all up...this poor girl!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:39 am
Scarletmoon wrote:
thedude11 wrote:
Thanks for this!
Gotta say it's interesting looking at Eric's pic in higher resolution. He doesn't look like he hates life here and like he has negative thoughts.
This is before he became his alter ego "Reb". You can see that in his junior year, he no longer signs his name, Eric Harris. It seems that by then, to him, Eric was gone and he was Reb now. Its interesting seeing this, I feel like he became Reb, in 1997.
Yeah very true.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:34 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], thats why I always tryin to make my eyes open wide and don`t twinkle my eyes, so......I always get my pictures with freakin` wierd face...
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:52 am
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Just noticed the poor girl next to Dylan had her eyes closed!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:04 am
thedude11 wrote:
Thanks for this!
Gotta say it's interesting looking at Eric's pic in higher resolution. He doesn't look like he hates life here and like he has negative thoughts.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the pictures. I agree, it's definitely interesting to see, and sort of sad.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:55 am
Have you nearly scanned the 300 pages yet [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]?
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:08 am
I messaged (her) about that the other day too but have not heard back yet.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:11 am
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I messaged him about that the other day too but have not heard back yet.
She'd started it when I was speaking to her the other day. I think she was busy with uni work but hopefully she'll have some free time now it's the holidays!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:14 am
Oh that sounds great!
I am really looking forward to seeing it as well
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:25 am
Wow! This is really cool! Thanks for sharing it. I'm sure personal things that relate to Columbine are hard to come by....but one day I hope I may get lucky and run across something.
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:19 am
H311ish.B3ast wrote:
Wow! This is really cool! Thanks for sharing it. I'm sure personal things that relate to Columbine are hard to come by....but one day I hope I may get lucky and run across something.
No problem! Glad you liked the pics. Yeah, couldn't believe my luck - perfect timing, honestly. I hope you manage to get your hands on something too!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:23 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Finally, got back to you. Sorry about that!
Hopefully I'll be meeting up with [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] at some point so we can show each other the photos and yearbook in person!
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Subject: Re: 1996 Yearbook signed by Eric Harris (photos). Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:03 am