Silver Chips is the name given to Blair’s school newspaper in 1937, as the then-new school started to grow and activities expanded. Unlike the school yearbook, the Silverlogue, the Silver Chips did not carry over from the old Takoma Park-Silver Spring School. There had been previous newspapers at the TSS school, including one called The Cardinal.
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The students at the new school wanted to start fresh but they also wanted to carry on some of the traditions they brought with them from the pre-Blair high school. They named the news paper Silver Chips because it was a ‘chip off the old block’ – of the Silverlogue! |
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Below is the first group of files of the Silver Chips (eventually, we will have all existing issues on our site). Reading through these Silver Chips is like walking through American history itself for the past 70+ years. Enjoy the journey! |
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You’ll also see that many of these issues have experienced much wear and tear over the yeras. If anyone has an actual Silver Chips issue that we are missing or that is in better condition than what we have – we want to hear from you! |
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To view all issues for an entire class year: click on the desired class year in the CLASS YEAR column. You will be downloading one very large PDF file. This may take some time depending on your internet access and computer. If this takes an excessive amount of time, you may wish to try downloading individual issues. (Note: if the class year is not red in color, then we have not yet compiled all the issues for that class year – only years in red indicate that the compiled document exists and can be downloaded). |
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To view individual issues: click on the desired date under the desired MONTH column. This will download one PDF file for that individual issue. This should not take very long, but it is also dependent on your internet access. Most of the early years are only 4 pages in length. As you get to more current years, the number of pages will increase. |