embossed on the cover of each high school yearbook were the words : the centurion bay high school ... on the cover of each college yearbook ( they were heavier , more richly bound ) were these words : the prism let us remember he opened the high school yearbooks first , flipping through the signed end pages ( `` uptown , downtown , all around the town/i 'm the gal who wrecked your yearbook/writing upside down-a.f.a. , connie '' ) , then the photographs of long-ago teachers , frozen behind their desks and beside their blackboards , smiling vaguely , then of classmates he barely remembered with their credits ( fha 1,2 ; class council 2,3,4 ; poe society , 4 ) listed beneath , along with their nicknames and a little slogan .