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AHS JOURNALISM GOLD SPONSOR

Gone with the Yearbook!

By Travis Small and Benton Gearheart

Junior Hailey Waters sells yearbooks at Saturday’s fall drama performance. Sophomore Erin Shannon and ’12 grad Ian McNees browsed through the 2012 book during intermission.

The Atlantic High School Journalism Department is selling the 2012-13 Yearbooks for $50.

The journalism adviser Allison Berryhill encourages everyone to buy a Yearbook. Berryhill said, “We try to keep it as low as possible.”

The AHS Booster club donates $3,000 to the journalism department each year. Berryhill said other profits come from selling advertisements. “The goal is to break even and have a nice book for the students,” said Berryhill.

The yearbook for this current year will be delivered in the fall of 2013.  “Because we do a fall book, we finish it in July, and it arrives in the first week of September,” said Berryhill. She thinks students should buy a yearbook to see how many things have changed from the years before, plus it is fun to look at in the future.

The journalism department has sold 102 books so far. Their goal is to sell 300 hundred books by the end of the year.

Perhaps the journalism department’s most loyal customer is science teacher Nancy Jenkins.  Jenkins has purchased a yearbook for “at least 30 years or more.”

Senior Jared Fulk gets a laugh from looking at his parents’ pictures in a Javelin from the 1980’s

Jenkins said she buys a yearbook every year because of the importance of the kids. “It doesn’t just stop when you have them in class,” she said. Jenkins said her yearbook is useful when she sees past students in the store or somewhere else. She said the yearbook is a good way to go back and reminisce and look kids up.

Jenkins said it would be nice for the yearbook to be published sooner (in the spring), except it needs to get summer sports in there.  She said the only drawback in the yearbook is when they did not put the year on the front of the book a few years back. “Otherwise I think the yearbook is great.”

Jenkins said she really hasn’t looked at how things are spelled this year, but the “formating looks really really nice.”

Jenkins said she realizes the price may be more than a lot of people can afford, but she thinks it is reasonable.

Freshman Bre Reason hasn’t ordered a book yet because this is her first year at the high school.  She said she has looked at a friends’ books and is soon to order one. She said she liked the design and thought they were cool.

Junior Sara King skims through the 2011-2012 Javelin!

Sophomore Logan Nielsen said that his favorite part of owning a yearbook is to go back and look at the good memories from that year. Nielsen said the design of last year’s book was, “pretty simple but it got the message across. I liked it.”

 

Senior Jake Auerbach said the yearbook is priced “decently reasonable.” He said the book is “pretty darn good quality.” His favorite part in the 2011-12 yearbook was all the candid photographs and how the students were all linked across the top of the page.

Here are some quick facts about the yearbook:

THE GOAL is to get everyone in the yearbook at least 3 times?

YOU CAN PAY FOR A YEARBOOK in installments. See Berryhill to make a downpayment.

THERE IS A LINK at the top of the AHSNeedle.com for an online payment center.

PAY AT SCHOOL f you would rather pay with cash or check. Bring payment to room 408.

Sophomore Allie Siggins looking at javelins from years past.

IN YEARS PAST students received mailings at home. The journalism department is not using direct-mail marketing this year. Books must be purchased online or through the school.

QUESTIONS? See Berryhill in room 408. OR CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!

 

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