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 best world possible when they
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 Kay was so dedicated she
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. Once the critique is returned
There are some yearbook staffs who continually impress, year after year. But how do they do it? Mike Taylor, CJE, host of Ask Mike, sat down to find out how. In this podcast episode, he interviewed the editors of three outstanding yearbooks. You can listen to their interviews on the new episode, ”What Sets These Yearbooks Apart from the Crowd?”
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 because we know it means
Journalism is a challenging profession, especially when you choose to work in a country other than where you were raised. That’s part of what makes Jessica Rapp so impressive. The writer (and sometimes photographer) moved to Beijing, China, right after graduating from college at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. She fell in love with the energy of Beijing and,
Four years ago, the yearbook program at Williamsville North High School in Williamsville, New York, was fine. They weren’t creating award-winning or journalistic yearbooks, but their yearbook club was creating image-based books that the community liked well enough. “It was a big picture book,” said yearbook adviser Erin DeVantier. This is fairly standard in their part of the country; most
Jai Tanner’s yearbook career spans 21 years and three different states – and that’s not even counting her high school yearbook experience. She spent the first three quarters of her career in Texas and New Mexico. Her yearbook staff at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas, was no stranger to Crowns and Pacemakers. Her move from the Southwest to
Scholastic journalism can lead people in many directions. For Anna Elizabeth James, it led her to making films. In a highly competitive, male-dominated industry, James sill leans on the lessons and work ethic she learned from her time as a yearbook editor. Joining the Yearbook When she began writing, James knew she had at least a little bit of talent,
The 2018 school year was unforgettable for David Graves and the Belltower staff at St. Thomas’ Episcopal School in Houston, Texas. Just three days after the start of the school year, their school – and the entire Houston area – fell victim to Hurricane Harvey and the record flooding created by the storm. In the newest episode of Yearbook Chat
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