Everyone awaits holding the sacred book in their hands at the end of every school year. This book is called the yearbook.
Lakeland High School (LHS) has finally finished the production of this year’s yearbook.
Students pay $40 for a book filled with memories from the year they have finally completed.
Yearbooks have been generational gifts. Whether they are customized with signatures, notes and funny photos or just a basic copy of one most students buy they still hold special memories.
However, the production of this takes more time than some think.
It took months for the yearbook students to form this book that will soon be in the hands of the students here at LHS.
From designing the cover to coming up with captions for each chosen photo.
But where do they start?
Well first they have to come up with a theme for the yearbook. In the past years we have had multiple green and gold ones for the traditional move, monopoly, throwbacks and more. This year, since it was Michael Dunn’s first year back at teaching yearbook, they went with a more traditional look.
The cover is filled with school pride by being a kelly green and a short sentence saying “WE ARE…”. This is what was picked as the theme for the year of 2024-25. It is filled with adjectives describing who LHS students are if they could be described in one word.
But with every project comes its ups and downs. This yearbook class was a group of fairly new students but they still did a great job. Yet, it was a learning experience for everyone. At times it was chaotic and other times easy. But, that’s just how things like that work.
“It’s something that captures your last years as a child before you go out into the real world,” Casey Williams said.
Yearbooks are something people get to carry with them forever. No matter the grade you’re in they hold some sort of sentimental value and that’s what makes these books priceless. It’s like a window into the past. Something to show your kids when you’ve grown up. It freezes moments in time.
That is what is so cool about them. That is the significance. Some may think they are just a silly little book but one day they won’t be. They will be a snapshot of what our highschool years looks like.
“I think this yearbook was very well done, it was excellent, and I really think that a lot of these students in my yearbook class did just a truly, truly excellent job,” Dunn said.
