What’s the one thing that will make graduates feel better? That makes them laugh and cry, that will never quite lose its ability to bring on those nostalgic feelings about those precious years that they didn’t know to appreciate until long after they were over? The yearbook, of course!
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here’s nothing in the world like graduating. Nursery grads are moving on to start school, eighth graders will be beginning a new chapter in high school, and high school grads are giddy with the joy and amazed delight that comes from facing the endless possibilities of the “real world.”
Still, at every stage, change is hard. What’s the one thing that will make graduates feel better? That makes them laugh and cry, that will never quite lose its ability to bring on those nostalgic feelings about those precious years that they didn’t know to appreciate until long after they were over? The yearbook, of course!
Some schools produce a yearbook every year for every grade. Some just do it for the graduating class. Sometimes there’s a yearbook instructor (teacher) involved; other times the students are entirely on their own. Some have advertisements; others do not. Some just have mazel tov letters from the graduates’ families. Anything goes.
These days, yearbooks are usually solid, durable books, with glossy, color pictures. Often underneath each senior’s pic there’s a deep and meaningful quote handpicked by the grad.
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