From the monthly archives:
In her latest column at the website monroenews.com, Michigan journalist Rebecca Regnier relayed a story that perfectly sums up the value of the yearbook.
While accompanying her 18-year old son on a visit to one of his prospective college choices, Regnier came across some of the school’s old yearbooks from 1942. Inside? Pictures of her grandmother, who had attended the school and unbeknownst to Regnier, even been in a sorority.
Already here in the Yearbooks Blog, we’ve passed along stories of schools raising money by selling old yearbooks they have in stock, just collecting dust on the shelves. But so far, we haven’t heard of one quite as successful as the sale at Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyoming.
Adviser Lisa Gray had an overstock of old yearbooks going back as far as 1916, and minimal storage to keep them in. Before resorting to recycling the books, the school’s librarians came up with the idea of selling them and advertising the sale in the local Casper newspaper.
Earlier this month, Tim Morley was named one of the Distinguished Advisers when the JEA announced their annual individual honors for yearbook advisers. For Morley, the adviser at Inland Lake High School, Indian River, Mich., it was a special award to be sure.
As this article from the Petoskey News-Review in Petoskey, Mich., details, Morley’s students and school, which as recently as 2009 voted him “Teacher of the Year,” are also taking a great deal of pride in the JEA award.
Since it launched online almost two months ago, the video “Surprise high school reunions” has been seen by thousands of viewers.
A couple weeks ago, we found the most famous fan yet of the hilarious video, when actor Aston Kutcher tweeted his positive review from his Twitter page at twitter.com/aplusk, saying “the video gets an A+ for being funny and clever.”
Over on the Idea File side of the website today, you can find an article on Walsworth’s customized marketing – a new program this year that has been providing yearbook staffs with professionally designed fliers, posters and other materials to help them promote and sell the yearbook.
Yearbook staffs can request what they want through an online form, and even incorporate their own school colors and images of their own students.
For any yearbook staffs still pondering the usefulness and value of Facebook as a way to help preserve memories, take a look at this recent article from the West Seattle Herald.
Kim Nichols is a long-time resident of the trendy West Seattle neighborhood and she recently created a page on Facebook, dedicated to celebrating the area and preserving the area’s memories. One way she’s doing that is with pages from old yearbook photos from West Seattle schools.
Twitter has become one of the most popular ways to communicate on the internet. Which is why we thought it would be fun every so often take a look around and see what fun things were being tweeted about yearbook.
So, here is our first installment of the yearbook week in Twitter, with a few tweets gathered from the last 10 days or so.
The Journalism Education Association awarded its 2009 Yearbook Adviser of the Year honor today to Lori Oglesbee of McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas.
McKinney was previously honored by the JEA in 2004, when she was named a Distinguished Adviser. She’s been an adviser for more than 20 years, and her staffs have won national awards multiple times.
Thanks to funding problems, the yearbook staff at Molalla High School in Oregon frequently was forced to reserve time on computers in the library just to get their yearbook work done.
However, thanks to a sweet, affordable deal that the school’s technology supervisor found on some slightly used, 2-year old computers, the Molalla staff got to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony and go to work in their very own computer lab last week.
Walsworth Publishing held its annual International Sales Meeting last week in Tucson, Ariz., and the 175 folks in attendance at the event got into the yearbook spirit on the opening night.
The company gathered up old senior yearbook portraits for those in attendance and put them on display at the opening dinner. A contest was held to see who could identify the most photos correctly.
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