Above: Sacred Heart High School Viking 1967 & 1969 yearbook, which is a part of the Museum’s Yearbook Collection. Sacred Heart is our 2025/2026 Featured Renville County City.
RCHS is also looking for the school newsletters (the list of ones we have is below).

The most recent donation of yearbooks includes the Danube High School Falcons 1971-1974 that was owned by the art teacher, Mrs. Mary Kosak. The YEARBOOK Library Cart is organized by school name.

The goal of RCHS is to collect at least 3 copies of each yearbook for each Renville County school districts. One copy put away for permanent preservation, 2nd copy put away in case the 3rd copy disappears from the Research Library. Next to the yearbook dates in parentheses (#) is the number of yearbooks currently in the Museum’s collection (as of today, November 4, 2025). No ( # ) indicates only one single copy that is being used in the Research Library.

If you have yearbooks to donate, please contact Nicole at the Museum director@renvillecountyhistory.com or 507-697-6147! Yearbooks, plat books, and phone books are key pieces of preserving the history of who lived in the area and when.

That is okay if you are not ready to part with your yearbook. We can scan it and return it to you. Many of the yearbooks have been scanned into searchable PDFs.

Do you like looking at old yearbooks? We have a job for you. RCHS would like to start a database of Renville County graduates for future reference. We need your help. Data entry, attention to detail, typing skills, and some free time! We will train you, and this is a project you can do at home or at the Museum. Give me a call if you are interested. It is going to take a village to get this task accomplished. Nicole 507-697-6147 or info@renvillecountyhistory.com

We are in the process of auditing the yearbook collection and will have this completed by November 15, 2025.

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Yearbooks in the Research Library

Belview Danube Renville Sacred Heart (BDRSH): NO YEARBOOKS

Bird Island – St. Mary’s: The Blue Mantle: 1958 (2). 1959 (2)

Bird Island – The Blue Mantle School Newsletter: 1958

Bird Island – St. Mary’s: The Marion: 1960, 1962-1963, 1965 (2)

Bird Island Panthers: 1950-1951, 1955 (3), 1956 (3), 1959, 1962, 1965-1968

Bird Island – Lake Lillian: 1978, 1981, 1983-1984, 1986-1989

BOLD High School: 1992-1995, 2000-2003

Buffalo Lake Breezette: 1946, 1948, 1949 (3), 1950 (3), 1951 (3), 1952 (3), 1953 (2), 1955 (3), 1956 (3),

Buffalo Lake The Laker: 1957 (3), 1958 (3), 1959, 1961 – 1966, 1968 – 1973, 1977 – 1987

Buffalo Lake – Hector Hoof Prints or Hoofprints: 1988-1994, 1995 (2); 1996 – 2008, 2010 (2)
2010 was the last graduation class for Buffalo Lake – Hector High School

Buffalo Lake – Hector Elementary: year unknown

Buffalo Lake – Hector – Stewart Hoofprints / Mustangs (BLHS): 2011 (2), 2012, 2014 – 2015, 2019

Cedar Mountain: 1984, 2000 – 2003, 2016

Danube Falcons: 1951 – 1952, 1954 – 1955, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1971 – 1974, 1977 – 1979, 1982

Danube Renville Sacred Heart (DRSH): NO YEARBOOKS

Fairfax Eagles: 1917, 1923, 1956 – 1957, 1959, 1962, 1965 (2), 1970, 1981-1983

Franklin Atoms: 1948-1949, 1950 (digital copy only), 1958-1960, 1963 – 1966, 1969 (2), 1970, 1971 (3); 1972 (3); 1973 (2); 1974 (3); 1975 (3); 1976 (4); 1977 (2); 1978 (2); 1979 (2); 1980-1982; 1983 (2)

Franklin Atomite: 1948: Oct 6, Oct 20, Nov 3, Nov 17, Dec 1, Dec 15 1949: Jan 19, Feb 2, Feb 16, Mar 2, Mar 16 (cover only), Mar 30 1950: Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 18 1951: Jan 29, Feb 26, Apr 23, May 28 1952: NO COPIES 1953: NO COPIES 1954: NO COPIES 1955: Feb 10, Apr 28, May, Oct 27, Nov 17, Dec 22 1956: Jan 26, Feb 23, Mar 22, May 2, Nov 16, Dec 19 1957: May 22 1958: Feb 28
1959: Jan 23, Mar 20, Apr 30, May 22, Oct 21, Dec 18 1960: Jan 29, Mar 30

Franklin Tiger Beat: February 1970; May 26, 1972;

Gibbon – Fairfax – Winthrop (GFW): No Yearbooks

Hector High School: 1915 (2)

Hector Hectorian: 1948, 1952 – 1959, 1961 (3), 1962, 1963 (2), 1964 (2,) 1966, 1975, 1979 – 1987

Morton Tomahawk: 1907, 1915, 1917, 1938, 1940, 1944 (3), 1946 (2), 1948 (3), 1954, 1958 (2), 1960-1961, 1963, 1964 (2), 1965, 1966, 1967 (2), 1968 (2), 1969 (3), 1970 (3), 1971 (2), 1972 (2), 1973 (2), 1974-1979, 1980 (3), 1981, 1982 (3), 1983-1985. 1985 was the last year Morton had a graduating class.

Morton Blue & Gold School Newsletter:
1950: May 1953: Sep, Nov, Dec 1954: Jan, Feb & Mar, Apr, May, FINAL, Oct 29, Dec 1955: No Month, Feb, Apr, May, Oct, Nov, Dec 1956: Jan, Feb, Mar & April, May, Oct, Nov, Dec 1957: Jan, Feb, Mar & Apr, May, Sep, Dec 1958: Jan, Feb & Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct 27, Dec 19 1959: Jan 30, Mar 19, Feb 25, Apr 24, May, Sep, Dec 1960: No Month, Jan, May, Oct 1961: No Month, Jan, Feb, Sep
1962: No Date, May 1963: Jan, May, Nov, Sep, Oct, Dec 1964: No Month, Jan, Feb, Oct, Dec 1965: Mar, Apr, Sep, Dec 1966: Feb, Mar, Oct 1967: Feb, Oct, Nov 1968: No Month, Feb, Mar 1969: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Sep 1970: No Month, Jan 1971: No Month 1974: No Month
1985: May (LAST GRADUATION FOR MORTON SCHOOL)

Morton Smoke Signals School Newsletter: 1972: Feb 1973: Mar, Apr 6 1974: Jan 18, May 1, Sep 13, Sep 27, Dec, Dec 19 1975: Jan 17, Feb 7, Mar 21, May 1, May 5, Sep 16, Oct, Oct 2 1976: Feb, Apr, Apr 23, May, May 17 1977: Mar, Mar 29, May, May 2 1978: Sep 29 1979: Mar, Sep, Oct 30, Nov, Dec 21 1980: Jan 31, Feb, Mar 28 1985: Feb

Morton Elementary School: 1995 (last year Morton had an elementary school, they combined with Redwood Valley for 1996 school year and the school was permanently closed)

Olivia Crucible: 1912, 1916, 1917

Olivia High School: O-HI-AN 1924, 1949-1951, 1957-1959, 1962 Wildcats 1964-1965, 1967, 1972, 1974-1975, 1977

Redwood Falls High School Cardinal: 1977, 1981-1983, 1984

Redwood Valley Cardinal: 1985 (2), 1987, 1990-1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2009

Renville County West (RCW): No Yearbooks

Renville the Renvillon: 1931 (2), 1939, 1941 – 1947, 1949, 1950 – 1954, 1964 – 1978, 1984

Renville Sacred Heart Raiders: 1981, 1983, 1988

Sacred Heart Viking: 1967 – 1972, 1978

Please contact Nicole at 507-697-6147 if you can add to the yearbook collection!