The digital production class is announcing the theme for this year’s yearbook: Sincerely, The Pretzels.
“We wanted to take yearbook more seriously and more in the journalism aspect,” Chief Yearbook Editor Ellie Marten said.
The four editors, sophomore Kamryn Bradbury, Marten, senior Madelyne Spaide, and senior Sydney Mittelsteadt, along with Digital Production Teacher Haley Kurtz’s help have been working on the theme ideas for the yearbook for this school year.
The editors had about two full weeks, the deadline was mid-September, to come up with and put together ideas for the digital production classes to vote on to decide which one they will ultimately use for the yearbook.
Kurtz helps the editors by being a guardrail so if they have an idea and are unsure about if it would work or is relevant she is there to help. She doesn’t supervise the making of the themes that much, but there are times she has to say that they can’t do the idea.
“It can’t be the same as last year, so you have to think of something different, and it has to be school appropriate,” Kurtz said.
They also have to be careful of copyright to make sure the yearbook isn’t illegal.
So, a lot of work goes into creating the theme of the yearbook, and every year the editors, staff, and Kurtz try to make the best yearbook they can based on the theme that they come up with and choose at the beginning of the year.
