Recapture your moments with a yearbook

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By Catelin Owens

Looking at last year's book, students recall the highlights of the year and find pictures of their friends.
Looking at last year’s book, sophomores, Samika Tara and Shannon Krakowski students recall the highlights of the year and find pictures of their friends. (Photo by Catelin Owens)

The yearbook staff is changing up their distribution event this year.  The signing party will take place in the cafeteria on the morning of Friday, May 22. Only those students who have purchased a book by May 18 (you still can at jostensyearbooks.com) will be eligible to purchase tickets and be excused from class to pick up their yearbooks. Seniors will have the privilege of attending first period and underclassmen are invited to the party during second period.

In addition to picking up their books, students will get free food and there will be a raffle with assorted items such as a free wing party at Buffalo Wild Wings to tickets for the New York, New York roller coaster. Students can buy a ticket from the yearbook staff during lunch or from room 213 for $5 beginning May 11.

This year’s yearbook theme is Louder than Life and focuses not only on those big events that made the year loud, but also on the little things that are personally loud to each student. For one, it may be the workload associated with AP classes while for another it may be finding that after school job.

It takes three teams of people to make the yearbook come alive. From photographing every little moment, to retrieving quotes from all the students and faculty, then sending their pages to editors for review, the staff works together to create the yearbook and capture the school year.

“During deadlines it’s really stressful because we have to get all of our pages done, so I have to work on it at home and at school. If we don’t meet our deadlines it is really stressful for our editors because it prevents the book from getting out on time,” Courtney Howard, junior, said.

Senior Sophie Scaletta, one of three co-editors-in-chief, along with Hailey Hoffman, senior, and Michael Schwob, junior, is responsible for editing the yearbook.

“Finishing the yearbook was nothing short of a team effort. Everyone had different roles in creating, and it turned out to be absolutely beautiful. I’m so proud of our staff, and I can’t wait to have the hard copy in my hands and see how our hard work paid off,” Scaletta said.

With the school year coming to a close, people tend to forget that it is little moments that count the most. With a yearbook, you will remember those little moments for life.