Here’s a fun story this week from the Victorville (Calif.) Daily Press about an Oregon woman who just got back her long lost yearbooks from the 1960s.

Pat Anderson and her family moved out of their home in Buena Vista, Calif., 31 years ago and Anderson left two of her high school yearbooks behind. By the time she realized it, Anderson figured the books were gone for good.

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The Lufkin High School yearbook in Lufkin, Texas was recently featured in their local newspaper for their use of QR codes in the book.

According to adviser Tim Krause, the staff used a code this year as part of current events coverage linking to a video that was a montage of world events from the past year.

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Brian Soergel of the Woodinville (Wash.) Patch wrote a column about yearbooks this week, after his daughter brought home the latest high school tome.

During a cleaning binge several years ago, Soergel got rid of his senior yearbook, a move he now calls “dumb and dumber” due to all the memories he lost.

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Here’s an article from Philly.com with the story of how one yearbook staff in the Philadelphia metro area made use of the popular new trend of QR codes in this year’s yearbook.

The Center for Arts and Technology in Chester County, Pa., placed QR codes on a spread and linked it to YouTube videos of four major events that took place after the book went to print – including graduation.

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This week was the final one in the 37-year history of Harding High School in Fort Wayne, Ind. Education will go on in the hallways of the former Harding High, which will become a new magnet school in 2012. But Harding will be no more.

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette came up with the wonderful idea of getting the editor of the school’s first yearbook in 1974 to sit down with the editors of this year’s Harding yearbook to compare work, swap stories and share memories about their school.

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Maryville High School and Benton High School in Missouri have been rivals just up the road from each other for decades.

A little insight into just how long the rivalry has been around came back to Maryville High recently when a 1920 yearbook was sent to the school’s library from a book collector in California.

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The hunt proved successful – the Scavenger Hunt, that is. Molly Petrone, yearbook editor at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Mass., is seen here holding the iPad2 her staff won in Walsworth’s Scavenger Hunt contest at the CSPA convention in New York City in March.

With her are her adviser, Lorraine Zanini, right, and Michelle Sidwell, Walsworth yearbook sales representative in New England, who recently presented the staff with the iPad 2 in their classroom.

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School board decisions to close a school due to low enrollment and other circumstances are always very difficult for all involved. That has been the reality this year for W.K. Kellogg Middle School in Battle Creek, Mich., which will be closing its doors this summer.

Fortunately, as this article from the Battle Creek Enquirer showed, the school was still able to have a celebration of Kellogg’s 79-year old history this week using yearbooks and trophies from the school’s past.

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Take a look at this article from the Des Moines Register this week, which takes a look at trends with yearbook senior portraits.

A couple of photographers in the Des Moines area are quoted discussing the move away from simple head and shoulder senior portrait shots and toward “lifestyle photography.”

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