Scope and ContentYearbook: A.J. Demarest High School, Hoboken, New Jersey. The Highlight. '48 [June 1948]. Copy belonging to Felicia Spagnoli (married: Phyllis Spaloss], class of 1948. Embossed padded hardcover, 8-1/2" x 11-1/8" high, unpaginated [84 pp.] Shaken with several folios or pages held by clear adhesive tape. A well-used and loved copy filled with the usual inscriptions by fellow students and other notations that also shows the wear-and-tear of multiple readings and is known to have traveled to class reunions. A young child (Anthony) added his crayon drawings to four leaves. Demarest for many years had both June and January (or February) graduating classes; the issue here is for the June graduating class. The first hardcover yearbook for this school. Previous yearbooks were expanded issues, called "Senior Issue" of the school's soft cover magazine, The High Light (or Highlight). It was a smaller format than this yearbook and had simple flocked paper covers with the school seal. This new yearbook version was in what was the standard format of the era with decorative covers and endpapers. It is worth noting that it does NOT have any advertisements either commerical or personal (such as congradulations by families, etc.), lists of boosters or other well-wishers as would become common in later yearbooks. The general layout and text style of the publication does closely follow the previous smaller format softcover issues of the issues.