The pages, taken from a detention notebook rescued from a bonfire in the late 1970s, when the school was trying to reclaim a storage room, are on yellow lined paper, and have Lennon’s surname at the top. One covers the period May 19 to June 23, 1955; the other runs from Nov. 25, 1955, to Feb. 13, 1956.
The sheets show that Lennon was cited for one misdemeanor or another most days, sometimes two or three times a day. His crimes on the earlier page include being a “nuisance” (May 19), “chewing in class” and “making noise” (separate entries for May 23), “repeated misconduct” (June 13), “silly noises in an examination” (June 15), “sabotage” (June 16), “just no interest whatsoever” (June 20) and “idleness” (June 22). The second sheet includes more of the same, along with “impudent answer to question” on Feb. 9 (exactly eight years before the Beatles made their first appearance on the “The Ed Sullivan Show”).
