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This weekend will mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Many yearbook staffs will likely choose to include some form of 9/11 anniversary coverage in this year’s book, particularly those in areas directly impacted.
This week on the JEA’s website, their quarterly publication – Journalism Education Today – created a slide show looking back at some of the coverage student publications provided on the attacks 10 years ago.
The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) has dubbed this week “Awards Week” and they will be naming a different set of finalists for their various awards each day this week.
You can see the results as they are revealed over at the NSPA website.
Popular family history website Ancestry.com announced this week that it was adding around 25,000 new U.S. yearbooks to its searchable online collection.
According to the company’s announcement, the site’s “U.S. Yearbook Collection” now includes close to seven million images from yearbooks dating all the way back to 1884.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) continued one of his annual swings through the state of Missouri on Tuesday by visiting the yearbook printing facilities at Walsworth in Marceline.
Sen. Blunt took a quick tour of the Walsworth presses and Bindery, then held a roundtable discussion on the economy with local business leaders and elected officials.
TV station WLUK channel 11 in Appleton/Green Bay, Wisc., featured the Menasha High School yearbook staff this morning during a weekly Friday segment spotlighting local schools and high school football.
It was a sweet little bit of pub for the staff and their book, which as they explained – loves using lots of photos.
Priscilla Mangnall, a columnist with the Grand Junction Free Press, has always been, in her own words, “obsessed with yearbooks.”
You can see that for yourself in this column that Mangnall wrote last week, as she was getting ready to attend her 40th high school reunion at Grand Junction High School.
Here’s a fun story that Houston TV station Fox-26 did this week on security guard and history buff Thomas Howard.
Howard is currently a security guard at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, but several years ago while working on a job at an apartment building demolition site, he stumbled across some valuable collectibles. Among them was a 1924 yearbook from Houston Central High School.
Did you graduate from high school in Jersey City, New Jersey?
If you did, then there’s a pretty good chance your yearbook photo is soon going to be part of a collection at the Jersey City Public Library, thanks to librarian Cynthia Harris.
Mashable.com declared today to be the day that “we acknowledge and celebrate the revolution of media becoming social.”
At Walsworth and the Yearbooks Blog, we whole-heartedly agree. Contrary to some common misconceptions out there, social media is not replacing yearbooks. Yearbooks and social media both keep people connected, and celebrate the memories we share.
Advisers ranging from as far as Arizona and California all the way to New York converged on Kansas City Tuesday morning for the opening of Walsworth’s third annual Adviser Academy summer workshop at the downtown Hyatt Regency.
Company President Don Walsworth welcomed the visitors with a brief history of the family-owned company and a reassuring reminder that yearbooks remain relevant because they remain a “keepsake” that “lasts forever.”
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