From the monthly archives:
To all the readers of the Yearbooks Blog – remember to have a safe, fun Memorial Day! As always, be sure to take some time to enjoy with your family and friends on the holiday. And of course, take a moment to remember what Memorial Day is all about – all the soldiers who have given their life for this country.
Be sure to check back the rest of this week with more updates from around the world of yearbooks.
Take a look at this great piece about yearbooks from Jim Higley – a humorous blogger from Chicago who goes by the moniker “Bobblehead Dad.”
Yearbooks have been on a lot of minds this month as the spring books have been getting delivered to schools, and Higley wrote his own hilarious recollections about what the yearbook meant during his high school days.
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American Idol will crown its latest winner tonight in the season finale showdown between finalists Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox.
DeWyze, the 24-year old from Chicago, has become a star on this year’s edition of the popular talent show. Which is all probably fun to watch for those who remember this clean-cut dude from the yearbook photos at Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Ill.
In case you haven’t heard yet, Walsworth announced over in the News area yesterday afternoon that three schools have been named winners in this year’s It’s Worth It sales contest.
The Yearbooks Blog wants to offer a well-earned congratulations to the yearbook staffs from Coastal Christian High School, Taylorville High School and Rockingham County Middle School.
The Kansas City Star did a probing and insightful article in their Sunday edition yesterday about the varied way yearbook staffs deal with the touchy subject of student deaths.
What exactly is the best policy for handling the yearbook coverage of students who die during the year?
If you’ve been frequenting the Yearbooks Blog and the Walsworth Facebook Fan Page this year, then hopefully you’ve become inspired to create a yearbook video to promote the book next year.
And if you’ve really gotten fired up by the possibilities of creating a video, and you want to get ambitious, some schools have even begun creating “lip dubs” that can involve an entire school. If that kind of project carried yearbook messaging, what better way would there be to spread the word?
If you took note of this week’s article over in the News & Notes area, or you caught wind of it over at the JEA website, then you know by now that Virginia Tech University adviser Kelly Furnas was named the new executive director of JEA this week.
Here in the Yearbooks Blog, we wanted to take a moment to say a quick congratulations and good luck to Furnas as he embarks on his new job with the JEA.
Another fun account of the yearbook staff and school having a great time with the delivery of this year’s yearbook can be found with this article from today’s St. Petersburg Times about J.W. Mitchell High School.
As the story points out, the yearbook always seems to have special meaning for the seniors, just as it has this year at Mitchell.
Advisers and aspiring, young journalists should check out the spring edition of Dow Jones News Fund’s Adviser Update publication, where Walsworth editor Elizabeth Braden wrote a new review of the book Not So Wild a Dream.
The book is the autobiography of long-time journalist Eric Sevareid, a former newspaper reporter, essayist, and TV/radio correspondent for CBS News who died in 1992.
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