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"It’s a Great Day to be a Red Devil" is a phrase that dates back to a former Hinsdale Central football coach who taught from 1983-2006. He would say, “It’s a great day to be alive and a Red Devil,” grateful for the community, school and school traditions. Since then, the phrase has become a school mantra, printed on planners, seen on phone cases and heard daily over the announcements. So the El Diablo staff took the theme and created a positivity-infused book centered around all the reasons it is so great to be a Red Devil.

Let’s start with the index – that crowded, jammed-full index that had every one of the 2,776 students in it plus faculty. You’d be hard-pressed to find names with only one page number listed; most have a minimum of two and many more than that. Most spreads contained a sidebar with quotes explaining it’s a great day to be a Red Devil because… and the pages were peppered with decorated doodle quotes with some variation of what the student was doing for their horns – race for your horns, shout, perform, prepare, apply, volunteer, jam out, debate, etc.

Ultimately, they were all about expressing their role in their school community. In a difficult year where the school faced budget cuts, the yearbook made a fun and whimsical yearbook, reminiscent of a personal notebook, filled with memories, hand-drawn doodles and sketches, photos and unique ways to include the whole community.