A group of University students is considering the possibility of re-establishing the University’s yearbook, Corks & Curls, for the 2014-15 academic year.
The yearbook was published consistently for 119 years beginning in 1888, but declining revenues caused it to stop production in 2009.
President of the Alumni Association Tom Faulders contacted Corks & Curls staff alumni to restart the publication, and the association has coordinated a UVA Fund to facilitate financial donations from alumni who would like to support the yearbook.
“I sent out an email to Corks & Curls alumni asking them if they were still interested to offer help, mentoring, money, whatever it might be,” Faulders said. “I’ve seen some evidence of alumni stepping up and helping.”
Second-year College student Carly Buckholz and second-year Engineering student Michael Buhl will lead the revival effort.
“There have been movements in the past with the alumni,” Buckholz said. “I think it was a fair amount of former yearbook staffers that contacted the Alumni Association and kind of pooled together.”
In the next year, Buckholz and Buhl plan to create a staff, set up a workspace, and continue to rally alumni and faculty support.
The secret O.W.L Society, which seeks to promote journalistic and literary pursuits on Grounds, also recently re-emerged after a hiatus and released an anonymous letter two weeks prior to the meeting in which they pushed for the reinstatement of the yearbook.
“The O.W.L. is very pleased to hear of the increasing student interest in reviving the venerable Corks & Curls,” an anonymous O.W.L. member said in an email. “The O.W.L. welcomes the efforts of Miss Buckholz, Mr. Buhl and others to see to its return, and it [is] our sincerest hope that much progress will come out of this evening’s meeting and future efforts.”
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Comments (7)
stasia rhoads on 09/03/2015
I am trying to get in touch with someone from Corks and Curls to locate where the 2014-15 yearbooks are. I ordered one last year and did not have it delivered to my house. The yearbook representative said my son could pick it up at UVA this fall. Thanks!
Christina Meier on 01/17/2014
I missed out on purchasing a book, but while showing my daughters around the grounds, I visited the reading room at Alderman, and lucked on the assorted volumes stored there. What great memories. The kids today look just like us… with updated hair styles and clothing! (CLAS ‘79)
Kenneth Wells on 12/13/2013
Bring it back! I have to pull my copy out on occasion to show my oldest son that I did some crazy things in college. Also, it does bring back memories of my times at UVa.
H. Bryson Ainsley, Jr on 12/10/2013
Bring it back ! After 65 years, I’m still looking at it several times a year.
Dorothy Yeager on 11/22/2013
I hope that they’ll bring back the yearbook. You’ll be grateful if you do this, and it’s a real loss for the classes that don’t have one. You’d be surprised how many of your classmates will suddenly come back into your life for professional reasons, and it’s nice to be able to go and look them up. Plus just for the sentimental reasons.
Charlie Sutton on 11/22/2013
I have two copies of Corks and Curls, one from my first year and one from my fourth. I am thankful for these windows on the past, especially since I am now about 45 years out. There have been many changes in both the University and in me, but my time at Virginia was one of the most formative periods of my life and I am grateful for the remembrances.
I do hope that C & C can be brought back. I imagine that a large book heavy on photographs is a challenge, but publishing options are greater and easier than they were in the late 60’s. Best wishes for the efforts of “Miss Buckholz, Mr. Buhl and others.”
Christopher Smith on 11/21/2013
Bring it back! Do it for yourself: You’ll always have a doorstop wherever you move. Do it for your children and grandchildren to stumble upon.
How illuminating it was to learn from my parents’ 1949 college yearbook that there were awards in the graduating class for male and female “pulchritude.”
Imagine your grandchildren asking you in 50 years, “What was ‘hotness’?”
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