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Each year, Walsworth chooses some of its finest yearbooks from all over the country for its Gallery of Excellence – a selection of books that are used as marketing samples and showcased at conventions.
Whenever yearbook rep Mary Kay Kimmitt would bring the sample of Gallery yearbooks in to show the staff at Calvary Day School in Savannah, Ga., adviser Josh Brewer set the goal – their yearbook would make it into that box.
In 1995, the Columns yearbook at Anderson University in Anderson, S.C., came to an end while the school was going through difficult financial times.
This year, an 18-person yearbook staff is bringing Columns back to the Anderson campus, just in time for the college’s 100-year anniversary.
The News-Herald, a daily newspaper in suburban Cleveland, recently showed its news staff how much fun you can have with old yearbooks.
On their website, the paper created a feature called “A look back…” and posted old yearbook images of a few “unlucky” staffers.
In this recent article from the York (Pa.) Daily Record, writer Jim McClure recounts how one of the newspaper’s readers sent the newsroom a copy of the 1921 yearbook from local York High School.
Attached to the yearbook was a note, “I thought someone would find it interesting.”
Walsworth announced this week that customer schools will get the chance to win prizes each month in the new Promotion Commotion sales contest.
Schools that use Walsworth’s Online Sales, and have activated their online School Store, are entered into the monthly prize drawing. After that, every time a staff uses a marketing technique to help promote or sell the yearbook, they can earn additional entries into the monthly prize drawings.
Here’s a fun article to check out this week from the Taunton Daily Gazette about the recent 70th reunion celebrated by the Bridgewater High School (Mass.) class of 1940.
As the article shows, 13 members of the class got together at a local restaurant to share memories and their senior yearbook came in very handy.
So, popular social networking website Facebook was in the news this week when reports indicated that there were now approximately 500 million active users on Facebook each month.
That’s a pretty impressive number. And it gives us a good chance to remind you of a message that you’ve heard on this website before – that Facebook can be a very useful tool for yearbook staffs in generating a buzz about the book and building awareness about the product.
Here’s an interesting article from the Fort Madison Daily Democrat in Iowa. A 1912 Lawrence College yearbook was recently discovered at a senior living facility in Fort Madison.
The yearbook belonged to Carl Nelson, one of the area’s more historical figures for the more than 30 years that he taught music and marching band in the Fort Madison public school system.
New Jersey librarian Nancy Janow has a passion for yearbooks.
Janow has lived in South Orange for the past 25 years, and as she told the Maplewood Patch newspaper this week, she has been collecting yearbooks from local schools for the past 15 years.
Yearbook staffs from Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., and Emporia High School in Emporia, Kan., won the Yearbook Theme Competition at the Missouri Summer Workshop last week at the University of Central Missouri.
The Theme Competition was new to the Missouri workshop this summer. Staffs had the opportunity to enter a theme package into the contest, even if working on one was not part of their workshop plans. Both Blue Valley Northwest and Emporia won a $200 Visa gift card for their yearbook program.
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