Yearbook
Yearbook staff captures enduring memories
Students learn wide variety of skills, from designing publications to professional communication
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Students in the yearbook
class have an important
charge: capturing moments,
both commonplace and ex-
traordinary, throughout the
school year to be preserved
as memories in each annual
edition of Seabreeze, Sea-
side High School’s long-
standing yearbook.
The class, run by En-
glish teacher Susan Baer-
tlein, runs yearlong, but not
all students can take it each
term, because of scheduling
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in her third year teaching
yearbook at Seaside High
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year goes on.
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freshman, said participat-
ing in the class “is basical-
ly like a job.” The students
have fun in the class, but
also must adhere to high
standards of professional-
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advertisers and meet pro-
duction deadlines.
“If you don’t do your re-
sponsibilities, other people
have to pick up the slack,”
said Avila, one of the edi-
tors-in-chief. “You have to
be here every day and do
your best.”
Advertisements
help
drive the price of the prod-
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from students. Because the
students rarely hear get
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als and businesses for ad-
vertising, they don’t have
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ing sponsorship, Baertlein
said.
“We have really good
community support,” she
said.
Normally students do a
little of everything for the
yearbook, but this year,
Baertlein designated stu-
dents as photographers and
designers, although they still
might get called on to help
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The photographers at-
tend events throughout the
school year, from plays
and assemblies to athlet-
ic games. If they’re smart,
Baertlein said, the students
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local photographer Jeff
Ter Har to get tips. Other-
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through experimentation,
she said.
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eral transferable skills that
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valuable in the future. Some
of those skills, according
to students, include pro-
fessional communication,
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for publication design. Avi-
la said the skills she learned
helped her get an internship
at State Farm insurance
during the summer.
Tenth-grader Danielle
Keen, a designer, has used
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from the class to do proj-
ects for other classes and
also privately for herself.
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book and improve her pho-
tography skills.
The yearbook class has
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tors-in-chief, a photo editor,
a business manager, a social
media administrator and
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Photo editor Megan
McQuilliams, a 10th-grad-
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enjoyed the class. As photo
editor, she is responsible
for collecting, organizing
and editing photos from the
other staff members and
making selections for the
yearbook.
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lights from each school
year. The team keeps the
theme a secret, to make
the yearbook’s unveiling
“a bigger deal,” Baertlein
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yearbook is full of secrets,”
she promised this year’s
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different.”
To help the students
learn more about the pub-
lishing industry and gen-
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upcoming year, Baertlein
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day camp, provided by
Herff Jones, at Willamette
University in the summer.
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shares fresh ideas and strat-
egies for making innovative
yearbooks and avoiding cli-
chés.
Students said sometimes
it is tough to have their
ideas rejected or critiqued
at the camp, but it drives
improvement.
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camp,” Baertlein said.
McQuilliams agreed the
camp exposed the students
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said.
The design for the year-
book is getting better, Baer-
tlein said. They are mixing
content and using creative
strategies. Since Baertlein
took over the class, Avila
said, the students have been
given more involvement
and responsibility.
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in the actual book,” she
said.
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a supplemental annex of
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layout for the yearbook is
sent to a printer in Utah,
Herff Jones, by spring
break; then students put
together the supplement,
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ing touch, before printing it
locally right after the com-
mencement ceremony to be
KATHERINE LACAZE/SEASIDE SIGNAL
Students in the yearbook class work on layout and design
ahead of a deadline for the 2015-16 version of the Seabreeze.
delivered as a single pro-
dut during the traditional
all-night senior party. The
yearbook distribution caps
off the party, as students
take time looking through
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