This collection includes a series of scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings, photographs and biographies of former Gerstmeyer High School students in the armed services during World War II. Also included are original letters written by Gerstmeyer alumni serving in the war to the Tech Service Club, the principal or other teachers. Apparently, the scrapbooks and the letters were kept in the administrative offices at the high school.

The letters are arranged chronologically, which seems to be the arrangement of the original files. Undated letters were filed by year, so it can be assumed that they were written in that particular year.

Of special note: There is a small amount of material pertaining to former Gerstmeyer students who served in the Korean War. This is filed at the end of the collection and contains lists of names and newspaper clippings.