St. Mary’s School, founded in 1842, by Rev. Aldert Smedes, is Raleigh’s oldest continually operating educational institution and the oldest school for girls in the State [1-3]. Many of the school’s yearbooks are now available online at the Internet Archive.
The yearbooks begin with the publication, The Muse, which ran from 1900-1924 and continue with The Stagecoach, which began in 1925. In addition to the class rosters, each yearbook contains a variety of information about the school, the faculty, the students, and their activities.
Muse: 1900 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911
1912 |1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922
Stagecoach: 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933
1934 |1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944
1945 | 1946 |1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955
1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961| 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966
1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 |1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977
1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1984 | 1985| 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991
1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
[1] Vickers, James. Raleigh, City of Oaks: An Illustrated History. Woodland Hills, Calif: Windsor Publications, 1982. [View the book index]
[2] St. Mary’s College. National Park Service. Web. 5 May 2012. <http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/raleigh/stm.htm>.
[3] St. Mary’s: ‘A Thorough and Elegant Education . . .’. USGenWeb Archives. 5 May 2012. <http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wake/bicen/stmarys.txt>
[4] Waugh, Elizabeth C. North Carolina’s Capital, Raleigh. Raleigh: Junior League of Raleigh, 1967.