Astronaut Mark Kelly will be visiting Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., today and he will be returning a special memento when he arrives.
Kelly took a copy of last year’s Mesa Verde yearbook with him into space on the final flight of space shuttle Endeavor, which he commanded from May 16 to June 1.
Take a look at this recent column by Gayle Faulkner Kosalko from The Times newspaper in Whiting, Ind., all about yearbooks and the interesting perspective they can provide on previous generations.
While doing some work at a museum, Faulkner Kosalko was able to go through yearbooks for local schools dating back to the 1940s, 1950s, even as far back as 1913.
A big Yearbooks Blog salute to adviser Kaitlyn Leach and her staff of yearbook kids from the American International School of Johannesburg in South Africa who made it all the way to Minneapolis this past weekend for the JEA/NSPA convention.
The group made the 36-hour trek from South Africa all the way to Minnesota, all in the name of yearbook. That is dedication!
The JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention will be providing yearbook staffs with the ultimate journalism learning experience this week in Minneapolis, and Walsworth will be contributing to that experience with an extensive list of speakers.
Sessions with Walsworth speakers will cover everything from learning how to sell more yearbooks and ads, to writing better copy, to staff management and much more.
The JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention starts next week in Minneapolis, and the Yearbooks Blog will be there. If you will be going to the convention, we want to hear from you as well.
We want to read the stories of your travels, what your yearbook staff is learning in the sessions, what’s going on down at the exhibit floor and all the fun in and around the Twin Cities.
The Yearbooks Blog loves seeing good ideas in action, which is why we wanted to give a hearty shout out this week to the yearbook staff at Alpena High School in Alpena, Mich.
The staff decided to start using QR codes this year, but not just for supplemental content in the book. They started using them for marketing purposes to spread the word about yearbook sales.
Has your yearbook staff ever considered organizing a photo contest? If not, it could be time to give the idea a try.
A photo contest is a great way to get students interested in, and actively involved with, the yearbook by submitting photos for consideration to be used in the book. A contest can even be structured so that the winner gets a free yearbook.
Here was an encouraging news item this week from the students at Mississippi State University, who voted to bring back the school’s yearbook in the campus elections.
The MSU yearbook, Reveille, had been discontinued in 2007, but will now go back into production after more than 4,000 students voted to bring it back.
Next week, a 14,900-document collection of items devoted to rock star Bruce Springsteen will be opening at the Monmouth University library in West Long Branch, N.J.
Songbooks, tour programs, magazines, photos, and Springsteen’s old yearbooks from Freehold High School will be a part of the massive collection, most of which had previously been kept in storage at the Asbury Park Public Library.
If you have been on the yearbook staff and been to a workshop or national JEA/NSPA convention in recent years, there’s a decent chance you know Mike Taylor.
This week Walsworth announced that Taylor, a popular and respected yearbook instructor, has joined the company in a Journalism Specialist/Key Accounts role.
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