1….2….3….Click!….FLASH! These are the first sounds you hear when you take your yearbook picture. Year in and year out, each student is always excited for Picture Day where their progress through high school is commemorated in a single frame. The yearbook provides an opportunity for you to revisit that journey any time you would like.
Yearbooks are important because they capture and honor the students’ achievements. Every single one of the pictures that go on each of the pages highlight and recognize each student’s strengths and talents. Photographs also help bond our student community by telling stories of youth and friendship.
For seniors, their picture day is one of the most significant events out of all of their high school careers. It is their last year here, so they want to remember their most memorable moments from this long but rewarding journey. “Yearbook lets you cherish memories forever through pictures and captions,” Miranda Di Marino, a senior in the Yearbook class stated. At Olympia High School, the Yearbook crew makes sure that no game, activity and dance goes uncaptured, so the students can all look back and say “Wow, that was one heck of a night!”
Truly, this is Yearbook’s main goal— giving alumni the opportunity to look back and relive important moments when they are older. When you have reached every goal you have ever wanted to achieve, you want to be able to go back and show your family the type of person you were when you were a teen— that one step right before adulthood.
Not everyone has the same high school experience , however, that’s the beauty of it— each memory is unique and irreplaceable. Each student, whether they played a sport, participated in a club, or were inducted into an honor society, is going to be included. All of Yearbook’s untiring work is done for that sacred moment when a student sees their name on the page for the first time and gets that rewarding sense of accomplishment. Every page includes the things that each Titan did for our diverse community, so no deed goes unnoticed.
In conclusion, yearbooks are archives, commemorating all four years of each student working to become the person they want to be and displaying their talents and accomplishments. Yearbooks show the evolution of self. “Yearbook is special because it captures everyone’s best moments, greatest friendships and achievements. It’s also a way to preserve the school’s history,” Di Marino shared with a smile.
The Torch is more than a book, it’s a time machine. It is a sign of the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another so next time you see a student working tirelessly to capture an event, make sure to smile for the camera!
