Friday is the last day for Birmingham-Southern College, and it’s the last chance for alumni and friends of the school to collect a treasured memento.

The Stockham Shop, in the Stockham Women’s Building on the BSC campus, will reopen from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday to sell BSC memorabilia, including a lot of yearbooks. The oldest one is the 1919 edition of The Revue.

A lot of the other merchandise in the Stockham Stop was sold as alumni and friends of BSC were on campus for the closing ceremony. Many of them who didn’t have tickets to the event went shopping.

“I think it was alums and parents of alums and all kinds of people who came in and just wanted a little piece of something,” said ‘Southern Development Director Alice Jackson. “A book that they remembered or a photograph of some building or something. It was kind of interesting to see who came in.

“A bunch of people have called us and want yearbooks,” Jackson said.

Friday is the time for people who have ordered old yearbooks to pay for them and pick them up to avoid the shipping charge. The store will close promptly at 2 p.m. and will not reopen.

If you can’t get to the campus Friday but are looking for a yearbook, send an email to alumni@bsc.edu. Some years of yearbooks are not available.

BSC has been battling financial problems for years and is closing Friday after a nearly 170-year history.

Talks continue in an effort to keep a college campus on the site. Alabama A&M has made an offer to buy the college, and Miles College, perhaps with a consortium of HBCUs, also has expressed interest.