I’ve been pushing my daughter to pick up her yearbook from last year before the schools close again for another summer. I suppose yearbooks are not quite the thing that they were when we were younger.
Even back in the Eighties, yearbooks were a pretty tough sell to the kids. I remember we had various ads that we had played over the announcements in order to get the students to buy one in time. One involved us singing an ad to the tune of ‘We Are the World’, and another reminded them that if they did not buy one in time . . . and ending in a flushing sound.
This was back when you used to get your yearbook on one of the last days of school. This allowed you to get well wishes, and signatures from all your friends before they went their separate ways for the summer. This was your final chance to get that special someone to acknowledge you and write something nice for you to remember them by,
It was always a bit of a scramble, trying to finish the books in time and get photos from the grad celebration added in time, so the publishing company has managed to move the delivery dates to the following school year. This does mean that you don’t have a bunch of people there to sign it when you go to pick it up.
This cuts out on all the clever variations of ‘Have a great summer!’ and ‘See you in the fall’ but makes it less of a keepsake. Plus, kids these days have their photos on their phones, and are able to keep in touch with their classmates a lot more than we did.
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