Refreshing memories

The inner workings of the yearbook

The yearbook class works to make a book that encompasses the entire year. The hierarchy of the class is split into intro, editors, editors-in-chief and the sponsor, Loran Marquez. They all have different jobs that they are responsible for.

For example, the Editors-in-Chief help intro students learn how to make the yearbook and what changes they can make.

“I am an EIC, so I pretty much help with everything,” senior Cameron Murphy said. “I give advice to new members and I edit their work before it goes to press.”

During class hours, the pages are created by the intro students. They work together to get them done. To review and revise them, they edit together, which they call roundtabling. Pages are printed and reviewed by multiple editors; then finalized by the editors-in-chief and given to Marquez.

“We have multiple deadlines, we give each intro student team a page and they make and develop them along with editors,” junior Aubrey Bernstein said. “For roundtable, we start with content edits on pages, when it’s approved, they place it [on the design], then we do a copy that goes through at least 3 people. That is where small design edits are made and any content edits that were missed. After that, we have another round once it’s in proof that goes through the EICs, copy editors, and adviser. Once that’s done, it goes to Marquez for her to look over and submit.”

The creation process starts in the spring and in a summer camp they add more ideas to the theme. When they return to school, they then take the ideas and start creating content and pages for the book.

“During the summer, there’s a yearbook camp, that’s where you learn how to use the tools and you develop more of the theme, moving forward with the ideas of what you want out of the book,” senior Arianna McDowell said. “Once you come back to school, that’s when you and your team come together and you put all of those thoughts into actually working on the book.”

Editors organize the events in the yearbook to help the reader. Another factor they take into account is how interesting the stories are and whether it will catch the eye of readers.

“In class, I typically work on the stories for the book itself,” McDowell said. “So the division pages and the endsheet stuff like that. I take the important things that have happened during that year, and I transform them into a compelling story that people would want to read.”