For many teachers, summer is a time to rest, reflect and recharge for the upcoming school year. For yearbook advisers, there’s typically less time to rest and plenty of time working to get the new staff organized. For Courtney Hanks, MJE, yearbook adviser at University High School in Orange City, Florida, the past two summers…
Yearbooks are all about the past, present and future. They’re a tradition. They capture what’s happening at your school in this moment, and they allow people to look back on these times for many years to come. We believe in doing what we can so the students creating yearbooks in 2020 will live in the…
The daughter of a longtime Walsworth Yearbooks rep just can’t seem to leave the business – or Walsworth. Mary Kay Wasinger Kimmitt spent 23 years as a Walsworth yearbook rep in Georgia. Her husband, Jim Kimmitt, was a Walsworth Area Manager based in Atlanta for 19 years. Their children grew up surrounded by yearbooks. Mary…
National and local critique and rating services provide yearbook advisers and staffs with feedback to guide improvement of their publication as well as earn award recognition. In the rush of the end of the year, be sure to make time to send your yearbook out for a critique to get feedback on your students’ work.…
To say that April is a busy month for us would be a major understatement. Visit one of our printing facilities and you will find our machines running at full speed during every shift to produce yearbook after beautiful yearbook as the smell of ink permeates the air. We’ve come to love that sweet scent…
This post is the last one in a four-part series highlighting the employees and departments that provide Walsworth’s outstanding customer support. You can read about the artists in Walsworth’s Creative Services area here. Our post about Computer Support can be found here and you can read about the company’s customer service representatives here. Every department at Walsworth Yearbooks…
On a day intended to celebrate love, a horrible tragedy happened instead. The news from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School yesterday was difficult to comprehend. All children, in every school across the country, are our children, but what happened to the children and staff at this high school was more personal. Walsworth is a long-time…
Why do you love yearbook? It may be the students or the ability to be creative. It could be the act of creating something meant to capture a moment in history, which will last for years. Walsworth’s latest eBook, Why I Love Yearbook, was born when advisers from all over the United States shared their…
Happy New Year! The start of a new year is the perfect time to look back and evaluate what you and your yearbook staff have accomplished so far this school year. As we’re sure you’ve discovered, yearbook can be challenging, but it’s also very rewarding. Take a moment to pat yourself on the back. You’ve…
A yearbook makeover is hard work. When the yearbook staff at Williamsville North High School in Williamsville, New York, made the change, they faced a year of hard work, new ideas and some opposition from the community. But the end product, a more comprehensive, journalistic yearbook, was worth it. The 2017 theme, “Growth,” ended up…
