COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • FEBRUARY 13, 2019 • 3A
CGHS yearbook honored
with another award
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Success has become part of
the process for the Cottage
Grove High School yearbook
team.
For the fi ft h time in the
last three years, Lion Tracks,
the school’s yearbook, has
brought home a national
award. At the end of Janu-
ary the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association (CSPA)
handed out their annual
awards to high school pub-
lications. Cottage Grove stu-
dents won two “Gold Circle
Awards” which are awarded
for “superior work by student
journalists.”
Th ere were over 5,300 en-
tries from around the coun-
try for 91 categories and 747
winners this year. CGHS re-
ceived the certifi cate of mer-
it in the multi-page spread
(completed by Mikayla Baird,
Madison Boyer and Jackson
Perkins) and the multi-page
sport spread (Perkins, Jor-
dan Hagewood and Emma
Sexton). In 2018 the Lions
brought home a fi rst place
and third place award for the
people spread, single spread
category and in 2017 a certif-
icate of merit for the table of
contents.
Northwest
Scholastic
Press, an organization that
puts on events and helps stu-
dent journalists, noted that
CGHS was one of three Or-
egon schools to win a CSPA
Gold Circle award this year.
CGHS was the only yearbook
winner of the group.
“I feel like it’s really cool
to win an award but it’s also
diff erent because I nev-
er thought that I would be
winning a national award
for something like this,” said
CGHS junior Mikayla Baird
who was a photographer for
one of the winning spreads.
Th e CGHS yearbook has
not only been recognized
through awards but their pic-
tures and spreads have been
incorporated on their pub-
lisher’s website and in vari-
ous handouts. Th ey have be-
come the standard that other
schools aspire to. But to get
to where they are today, it
started with raising their own
standards.
“It’s a lot of practice and
a lot of, ‘No, this isn’t good
enough.’ For me, I know that
would have been hard in high
school to be told all the time
that’s not good enough. But
these kids, they take it and do
better,” said CGHS yearbook
teacher Chris Wells. “For me,
it’s a step into real life where
you’re going to have boss-
es or even spouses that say,
‘Hey, this isn’t good enough,
you need to up your game.’
Th at rejection isn’t fi nal but a
chance to do better.”
Aft er a former yearbook
teacher’s
schedule
was
changed, Wells took over
yearbook during the 2013-
14 school year. While he calls
that fi rst book he worked on
“atrocious,” he has continued
to grow as he gives more and
more power to the students
each year.
“Every year I can give a lit-
tle more away, and give more
away and last year I took a
step back and this year my
editors, they handle a lot of
the inner-workings of stuff ,”
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surrounding area.
he said.
Part of the growth stems
from the fact that across the
yearbook classroom, there is
an understanding that this is
not just their homework but
this is a moment in time that
they are sharing with their
peers.
“Th ere are going to be
kids and grandkids look-
ing at this. Th is is going to
be at somebody’s wedding,
this is going to be at some-
body’s funeral and you’ve
made them memorable,” said
Wells. “You’ve helped people
remember them and it spans
distance and time and that’s
what is kind of cool.”
For senior editor in chief
Miranda McCasline, who
has been involved with the
yearbook since her freshman
year, that is exciting but also
comes with a sense of pres-
sure to continue to perform
at a high level.
“I feel like the last couple
of years we’ve done really
well and especially last year’s
book… So coming into this
year there were some nerves,”
said McCasline. Adding, “It’s
crazy because I feel like a lot
of the school doesn’t really
know like how awesome this
is and how crazy cool this is.
But it’s so cool to be a part
of that and that I get to look
back in years and say, ‘Hey,
we won an award for this.’”
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