From the monthly archives:
Have a safe and happy New Year from everyone here at the Walsworth Yearbooks Blog!
We hope all your hard work on the yearbook in 2009 continues to pay off with a successful publication in 2010. Keep coming back to our Blog for all the latest news from the world of yearbooks.
Everyone here at the Walsworth Yearbooks Blog would like to wish our readers a happy holiday!
We know how much hard work goes into the yearbook, but be sure to also take some time to relax and spend time with family and loved ones over the break.
After a weekend’s worth of judging, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) revealed its list of Finalists for the 2010 Crown Awards today.
Annually considered one of the most prestigious honors that a yearbook can receive, nine 2009 yearbooks printed by Walsworth were named Finalists.
So how much does a complete set of freshman-senior year high school yearbooks of the most famous basketball player on the planet go for on eBay?
If that player is Kobe Bryant, then around $5,000. At least, that’s what one seller is trying to get for this set of 1993-96 yearbooks from Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania.
Take a look at this story from the Des Moines Register about Matt Todd, an elementary school teacher in Iowa who has now also been the yearbook adviser at Wallace Elementary School for the past four years.
When he started, Todd said he “hadn’t even heard of yearbook for elementary students.” Now, there’s a yearbook program in place at Wallace, teaching the young kids valuable lessons about organization and publishing that they likely can’t get anywhere else in the school.
Walsworth hosted a dozen yearbook advisers in Kansas City last week for a new event called the Show-Me Seminar.
During the two-day seminar, the advisers toured the Walsworth printing facilities in Marceline and Brookfield, Mo., and also attended sessions on marketing, InDesign, Photoshop and staff motivation.
Another update on the fate of the yearbook staff at Palmetto Senior High School in Miami, who was the victim of a break-in and theft earlier this year.
Every computer, and essentially all of the staff’s work, was lost to the thieves. But now, new computers have been delivered.
The yearbook staff at Yankton Middle School in Yankton, S.D., has created a fun tradition with their yearbook cover. For each of the past 13 years, the cover has been designed a member of the student body.
Every year, the staff accepts dozens of student entries, which are then judged by a panel. The only limitation is that the design must use the school colors of red, white and black.
Does your school have an archive of unsold yearbooks from past years just sitting around gathering dust? That seemed to be the case at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, Utah, so adviser Brent Jeppesen and the staff decided to make a little money off the old books.
The staff got the idea to sell the back copies of the yearbook, Cavalier, once they realized the school owned multiple copies from almost every year since Mountain Crest opened in 1983.
As part of an on-going 50th anniversary celebration at their school this year, students at Nettle Middle School in Haverhill, Mass., will be placing school yearbooks and other items in a time capsule on Friday, which won’t be opened until 2059.
The school held a 50th anniversary celebration ceremony earlier this week, and allowed visitors to come view the contents of the time capsule, including a chance to flip through the school’s old yearbooks.
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