New Trier High School 1943 Echoes hardcover yearbook dating to Hudson’s senior year, 9.25 x 12.25, 151 pages, featuring his yearbook picture on page 136 under his adopted name of Roy Fitzgerald, signed above in fountain pen, “Lots of luck, Roy Fitzgerald.” The yearbook also lists him among the members of the senior class on page 140, noting that his activities included swimming, baseball, volleyball, and glee club. Other students have signed throughout the book. In fine condition, with light soiling to covers and slight flaking to ink in a few letters of his signature. Born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in 1925, Hudson’s father abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother remarried, and the 8-year-old Hudson took on the surname of his adoptive stepfather Wallace ‘Wally’ Fitzgerald. In 1946 Hudson moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and sent talent scout Henry Willson a headshot after failing to get into the dramatics program at USC. Willson took Hudson on as a client and changed his name to Rock Hudson, although Hudson later admitted he hated the name. A fabulous, unique piece with a seldom-seen variation of the noted actor’s signature. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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