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…
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…
This post is part of a series highlighting the employees and departments that provide Walsworth’s outstanding customer support. Our post about Computer Support can be found here and you can read about the company’s customer service representatives here. Walsworth strives to provide a positive yearbook experience to customers on all fronts. Creative Services is there to…
2017 has been a year-long 80th birthday celebration for Walsworth and we’ve enjoyed sharing it with all our yearbook friends. All year on our social media channels we’ve been dropping fun, interesting facts about the company, counting from one all the way to 80. Did you know Walsworth created prop yearbooks for the TV show…
This post is part of a series highlighting the employees and departments that provide Walsworth’s outstanding customer support. You can read about the company’s customer service representatives here. Many departments at Walsworth work together to provide an excellent customer experience. One mainstay is the Computer Support Department. These are the technicians who are there to…
Every day, Walsworth’s customer service representatives (CSRs) field a wide array of questions from yearbook customers. “Did I submit pages 2 and 3?” “Can you look at that design and see if you like it? Does it look good?” “My copy count doesn’t look like it reflects the amount of books that we need.” “I’m…
A small green frog figurine sits on the desk of Walsworth President Don Walsworth. Its jewel eyes witness the daily operations of the company, watching as visitors stop by, important meetings are held, and top-level decision-making happens. It’s beautiful, a gift brought back from his mother’s extensive travels. The frog is also an important symbol…
How a former Walsworth employee is helping an inner-city yearbook program remain afloat. After about 30 years as a sales rep, Mike Archer wasn’t quite done with yearbook. He retired from Walsworth in 2014, but by fall of 2015 he was back in the business – in a very different capacity. Archer is now a…
As the year comes to a close, responsibilities fall away. A yearbook adviser is never completely rid of responsibility – there’s always something you could be doing. But right now, while the mountain of work has shrunk to the size of a hill, take time to enjoy what you’ve created. A whole year of work…
