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Junior Elsy Mendoza is part of the yearbook staff. One of the steps to complete the yearbook is to take pictures. Mendoza is taking pictures of Mrs. Gadziola's first hour cultural experience for the yearbook. Photo by: Patricia Ortiz.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Patricia Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n

The yearbook may just appear to be pictures, but a lot of hard work is done in order for students to enjoy life long memories.<\/p>\n

Every year, the Plymouth High School yearbook staff works hard in order to make the yearbook for students to enjoy. \u00a0Since the first day of school, the yearbook staff begins the long process of starting the yearbook. \u00a0There are times in which the yearbook staff has to come in during the summer in order to finish the yearbook. \u00a0The more deadlines the students do not meet \u201cthe longer it will take to get the book published\u201d said senior yearbook editor Sam Hellinga. \u00a0The reason why the yearbook staff sometimes has to stay in the summer is \u201cthere are things that don’t happen until summer that are included in the yearbook (commencement, some spring sports). So to finish those events we have to come in during the summer. \u00a0Another reason we have to work over the summer is if we don’t complete deadlines throughout the year. That has been a problem in previous years so this year we are working hard to stay ahead of deadlines,\u201d added Hellinga. \u00a0According to the yearbook adviser, Mrs. Amy Schmeltz the yearbook process takes \u201cabout 14 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything that needs to be completed, needs to be completed in a certain process. \u00a0Completing the yearbook is not any different. \u00a0There are many steps to completing the yearbook. \u00a0The first thing that needs to be done in order to get the yearbook rolling is, \u201cgetting good pictures, sending out and receiving interviews and writing stories. And lastly, putting it all together on the spread,\u201d said senior yearbook staff member Sam Wheat.<\/p>\n

The yearbook has many nifty templates. \u00a0There are different templates for each section, \u201csports, student life, academics and reference,\u201d said senior yearbook staff member Kylie Ludwig. \u00a0The templates are created, \u201cwith boxes, text, and other graphics for \u2018fillers\u2019 to fit our needs,\u201dsaid senior yearbook staff member Zach Mahan. \u00a0Wheat says that the templates are in place so that the yearbook looks clean and professional, and so that it does not look like a sloppy mess that was put together in a hurry.<\/p>\n

Before the yearbook can be published, it has to be edited. \u00a0The yearbook is edited by the \u201csection editors and main editors\u201d said Ludwig. \u00a0The main editors are the editors of the whole yearbook. \u00a0The section editors are the editors who edit specific sections of the yearbook like the sports editor. \u00a0According to Ludwig, the editors \u201cedit it and go over it a ton before we even print the book. \u00a0Once we get the new books in, we all look through it before we pass it out to the rest of the school.\u201d \u00a0Mrs. Schmeltz said that the yearbook staff and the \u00a0\u201ceditors and adviser,\u201d edit the yearbook. \u00a0Students engage in peer review and fact and quote check with sources. \u00a0Then editors double and triple check spreads along with Mrs. Schmeltz.\u201d<\/p>\n

The yearbook staff gets the first glimpse of the yearbook when the yearbooks come in in the fall. \u00a0Before the students at PHS see the yearbook, \u201cwe all got one and looked through it and completed the evaluation. We want to be aware of any errors before the rest of the school gets them,\u201d said Hellinga. \u00a0If an error were to occur in the printing of the book, there is nothing that the staff could do. \u00a0Obviously they would learn from their errors, and this would help the yearbook become better for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Patricia Ortiz The yearbook may just appear to be pictures, but a lot of hard work is done in order for students to enjoy life long memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9053,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}