The Archive Committee has been around for 20 years and is made up of wonderful volunteers on a mission to make sure CCSD's history is preserved and well documented.

I stopped by CCSD Archives, and I can tell you it was a blast from the past.

It's a Clark County School District building with a history of its own.

(Joyce O'Day) In 2022, they came to this building that we like to call "The Little House."

And it was built by Vo-Tech students in the 1990s.

-The Little House just so happens to house CCSD Archives.

-The collection began in 2006 when Dr.

Kay Carl put together a team to record the history for the 50th anniversary of the school district.

-Here you will find a small but mighty group of volunteers... -This was written by the Archive Committee.

-...working hard to document and preserve CCSD's storied past.

-This is from 1978.

-Meet Joyce O'Day; her husband, Daniel; and fellow volunteer Nancy Schkurman.

(Nancy Schkurman) I love the Archive Committee.

I've been on it for about 18 years now.

Part of the reason I spend so much time on it is that I love the other people here.

-Each with their own special history at CCSD.

(Daniel O'Day) I was born and raised here, went to school here, graduated from Western.

-Both Nancy and Joyce, retired CCSD educators.

-Dr.

Carl asked me to write a book just on the elementary music program.

-We've got photos and negatives and slides that need to be archived and documented.

We don't even know all the stuff we have, and so it's going to take a while to get everything in order.

-They are actively looking for new volunteers.

-We have so many photos that are unidentified.

We don't know who they are.

-They're also looking for more historical donations.

-We'd love yearbooks, past and present.

We'd love anything that's archival, anything that seems antique or vintage.

-While they will happily take your vintage school T-shirts, there are the items they can't accept.

-We're limited on space, so trophies would be too big, anything too large.

-And, yes, CCSD Archives is open to the public.

-One of my favorite calls was from someone looking for the recipe for peanut butter cookies from the 1970s, and we actually had the recipe book from the school district.

-Spend just a few minutes inside The Little House, and you will definitely feel CCSD pride.

-This one is from North Ninth Street School from March 1956.

So this was the year that it became the Clark County School District.

-CCSD archives exist, in part, thanks to these caring volunteers.

-We just need more in-depth history in our district to appreciate the 70 years we've had, because this school district is very unique in the country.

-Their hope, to leave behind a beautiful gift... -You just never know what you're going to find in here.

-Every day is like Christmas here.

-...for future generations.

-Schools go away; they just throw it in the trash.

Nobody will ever see it because it's gone.

So we keep it in here, what we can.

Right now, we're just trying to get it all organized.

And when somebody calls us and needs something, we can find it, we have it.

-It's a labor of love, and it's for the future.

-Well, some of the items inside The Little House date back to the early 1900s, even before the Clark County School District was officially established.

Today, nearly 20 volunteers make up the CCSD Archive Committee.

But as we showed you, there is still a lot of work to be done.

They especially need help digitizing images so they can put them up on their website, and maybe, just maybe, someone can help identify the people in those photos.

For more information on how you can volunteer, have items to donate, or just want to stop by, head to ccsdarchives.org.

And, hey, students, listen up!

This could be a great community service opportunity.