As the year continues and major events at the high school play out, one of the best ways to commemorate the year’s events is in the yearbook. With the late rollout of last year’s yearbook, it has been questioned if this will be a repeat for this school year. Thankfully for both the teachers and students, this seems to not be the case. 

    Last year’s yearbook was unfortunately delayed for several months, and was not distributed until September. The primary reason was due to understaffing at the company that manufactures the yearbooks. This was coupled with transportation and shipping issues that further delayed the release. The yearbook from last year did not arrive at the high school until July, and both the yearbook organizers and student staff had to find a way to distribute them. This culminated in the distribution in September, with unfortunately much less fanfare and interest as previous years. 

    “It will be fun to sign yearbooks on the last day of school again, I think a lot of people are looking forward to that,” said Jackson Hanna, one of the student editors of the yearbook. Hanna is one of 41 members of the Yearbook Club, and one of two editors, along with Penny Meservey. The committee meets every club day and hashes out what will be in the yearbook. They try to include as many events in as possible. This will not always be possible, as the entire book must be done by March so it can be printed out and sent back to the high school. “It will take six or so weeks, and we should get them in May,” said Mrs. Schiffhauer, one of the teachers overseeing the yearbook.

    While the yearbook will be sent out on time this year, the formatting seems to be the same as previous years. “It will be normal formatting and traditional…we will try to include everyone more than once,” said Mrs. Schiffhauer. Seeing as the previous years have been engulfed by COVID-19, they will try not to include things about the pandemic. This is the first year mostly out of the pandemic in some time, and this may be mentioned. 

    There is still one thing that really makes the yearbook special, and that is the theme behind it. Unfortunately, the Yearbook Club has not budged on telling the student population what that theme will be, so it is still up to speculation. What can be said however, is that it will really tell us about this school year. As Mrs. Schiffhauer put it, “It’s a living document.” The yearbook will tell the story of some people’s last year in high school, and others how their first year was. It’s designed to be looked back on and for the people reading or flipping the pages to reminisce on.