By Jolie Ross
It’s the end of the year and time to show-off “Your Signature,” the theme of this year’s yearbook. At the yearbook signing party on May 15, students partied it up in the cafeteria with food, music, and peers. Much of the talk was about the new feature added to this year’s book – Aurasma, a free app that allows students to view videos which have been attached to various photos throughout the yearbook.
“The reaction to the book was just what I expected. The kids loved it, Aurasma was a big hit, and there were lots of positive comments about being able to see the signature through the cutout in the cover of the book,” Mrs. Thompson, yearbook adviser, said.
Yearbooks are a way to remember this school year before venturing off into the next year. For seniors, it is a way to remember the year before becoming independent and heading off to college. For the underclassman it is either a memory of their first year, a transformation through the years, or a lifelong way to recollect the tailgates, the Revolution, and the big game.
“Seeing the transition from the beginning of the year to now, makes it seem so weird. At the beginning of the year I was a junior, and now I am getting ready to be a senior,” Amaya Hunsberger, junior, said.
The things that make our time in high school bearable are all captured within a single book. The pep rallies, the spirit weeks, Mr. Coronado- these are memories that the entire school shares. Who could forget the conga line at lunch, the traditional “Freshman Kiss,” or the festivities of Homecoming? All of this is captured in a single album to be kept forever and with video, too.
Students ate food donated by local businesses (see below) and signed messages in their friend’s books. Some wrote just a basic “have a great summer” while others penned an entire novel. Participants also won raffle prizes like free gymnastics or dance classes and Starbucks gift baskets.
Students that missed out on this event can get their yearbooks starting Tuesday, May 20, before or after school or during both lunches at the banker’s office. If a student has not purchased a yearbook yet, but would like one, they’re available for $100, but checks will not be accepted from seniors.
A special thanks to the following donors:
Angelina’s Pizza
Buffalo Wild Wings (Eastern)
Cane’s Chicken
Capriotti’s
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (The District)
Cuba Café
Dance Zone
Dairy Queen
Dunkin Donuts (Eastern)
Fern Adair Conservatory of the Arts
Firehouse Subs (Eastern + Richmar)
Jamba Juice (Green Valley Pkwy & Pebble)
Krispy Kreme
Lindo Michoacán
Liquid Hair Salon
Mimi’s Café
Nacho Daddy
Pei Wei
P.F. Chang’s
Pizza Hut (Green Valley Pwky)
Regal Cinemas
Settebello
Smashburger
Smith’s (Eastern + Horizon Ridge)
Starbucks
Sunrise Café
Sunset Pizza
Swirlicious
Taco Y Taco
Terrible Herbst
Trufusion
Twin Peaks
Vogue Nails
Vons (Eastern + Anthem)
Wax 702
Zabas
