From the monthly archives:
The yearbook staff at Palmetto High School in Miami is still trying to pick up the pieces after a thief broke into their school and stole all the computers from the yearbook room.
As this update from the Miami Herald shows, the staff is a pretty resilient group. Work on their 424-page book has continued full-steam ahead.
Fox’s popular new show “Glee,” which follows the ups and downs of high school life for a show choir group at a fictional Ohio high school, will prominently feature the yearbook in this week’s episode, which is scheduled to air on Wednesday night, Dec. 2.
As this plot synopsis and the trailer below indicate, some members of the Glee Club find out their group won’t be featured in the school’s yearbook and they set out to keep their legacy and place in school history intact.
The yearbook staff at Miami Palmetto Senior High School was dealt a pretty big setback last week when thieves broke into the school and stole all of the staff’s computers.
All the work that had been done so far this year was lost, according to the account from the Associated Press. That included more than 3,000 photos and almost 100 pages of the book.
One of the perks of working for a company running a “Scholarship Sweepstakes” giving students a chance to win $1,000 prizes is that, eventually, you get the chance to be one of the people who shares in that good news with the winners.
This week Walsworth officially announced that Brendan Keady, a senior at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Ill., was the winner of the October drawing in our Scholarship Sweepstakes and the first of three $1,000 winners.
The yearbook at the University of Southern Mississippi, the Southerner, entered this year facing a bit of an uncertain future.
According to this story in the student newspaper, there were even rumors that this year’s 74th edition of the yearbook was going to be the final one. Not so fast, according to the staff.
Yearbook staffs are doing all kinds of creative things with online yearbook videos on YouTube and Facebook. They’re creating take-offs of popular commercials from Sonic, Apple and several other ad campaigns.
Those are all great attention-grabbers, and it’s a very cool exercise for the yearbook staff to get a little creative and go crazy making a fun yearbook commercial. However, quick montage video ads that show off the photography of the yearbook are also effective as well.
1:00 a.m. I’m still up, hunched over a piece of paper with a blue-and-orange booklet at my side. The paper is covered in random words and scratch-outs, and the writing on it changes abruptly from pencil to blue pen about halfway through. The scene would be familiar, almost exactly the same as every other night I’ve stayed up into the wee hours doing homework, except for a few small details.
The morning after. It’s the repercussion that every high school journalist regrets from a hard night’s celebration of the convention’s last night. Saturday boasts the tensest moment of the convention – the awards ceremony that provides Story of the Year and Best of Show awards to staffs, a celebration for some and a devastation to others – and the night that offers a reflection on all the sleep lost last week.
Last year, only 12% of the senior class at the University of Rhode Island got a picture taken for the school’s yearbook. That didn’t sit well with the yearbook staff, who has set out this year to improve that number.
As related in this article in the URI student newspaper, co-editor Jenn Lashinsky said the staff has been placing banners around the Student Union, stuffing mailboxes with fliers and created a Facebook page for the yearbook, among other things.
Keeping old high school memories alive and letting old friends track each other down has become something of a pet cause for Claude Fant of Hamilton, Ohio.
This article from the Hamilton Journal-News describes how Fant has been working for almost a decade now on the website hhsalumni.net, a membership site where people who went to Hamilton schools can keep in touch. As part of the project, Fant has scanned in photos from every Hamilton yearbook from 1915 to the present.
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