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Charlie Patton, a 15-year old student at James Madison High School in San Antonio, decided to have a little fun with her yearbook photo during picture day earlier this year. So she posed with an exaggerated, gaping smile on her face.
School officials weren’t quite as amused, at least according to this account by local TV station KENS.
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.
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.
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.
The Agromeck, the award-winning yearbook at North Carolina State University, has started a new campaign to give away a free yearbook to every senior at the school who gets a senior portrait taken.
The project is a pilot program being tested this year and is being funded by summer school student fees.
Thanks to many requests from alums and others looking for information dating back years, Purdue University decided to take 122 back editions of the school’s Debris yearbook and add them to the University’s Online Library collection.
The website that now holds all the back editions of the Debris includes a keyword search, so users can find old photos, or find the scores of old Purdue games.
East High School in Denver, like a lot of schools, has a rich history that goes back 100 years. Championship teams, famous alums – and it’s all chronicled in the school’s own museum.
Naturally, the school’s yearbooks from over the years – including the first one from 1909 – are an important part of the memorabilia.
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