In this study, I investigated how student publications portrayed whiteness as the dominant feature of the campus environment between 1945 and 1965 among the member institutions of a consortium of elite U.S. Midwestern liberal arts colleges located in rural and industrial towns across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. These…

Describes four types of yearbook covers and indicates how each might last, based on a comparison of yearbooks published during a 70-year period. (TJ)

Urges that school yearbooks include senior indexes, credits of accomplishments of faculty, and box scores of sports in the same sections as other copy about the specific sports. (TJ)

Suggests that high school yearbooks employ a thematic approach and provides 20 examples of themes that have actually been used by schools. (KS)

Describes the formation of a two-volume yearbook which uses both reporting and photo essays to characterize the school year. (KS)

Points out that it is not necessary and is sometimes undesirable for a school yearbook to have a theme. Provides guidelines for choosing and using a theme. (TJ)

Indicates that to build a successful yearbook advertising program an adviser must instill enthusiasm and then find students willing to sell advertising. Provides eight guidelines for structuring an advertising sales program. (TJ)

Argues in favor of summer delivery yearbooks, telling how they permit coverage of end-of-the-year school events. (GT)

Suggests ways for yearbook caption writers to get complete information about pictures, offers ideas for beginnings of captions, and lists do's and don't's regarding what to include in captions. (GT)

Argues that school yearbooks need not have themes. Suggests that if a theme is to be used, the staff should consider what a theme is, where it should be used, and which particular themes to avoid. Describes a few themes that have been used successfully. (TJ)

Describes the qualities that make Susie Hardie, the editor-in-chief of the 1976 "Colonel," yearbook of the Fleming High School in Roanoke, Virginia, an effective staff member. (KS)

Suggests ways to sell school yearbooks early in the school year so that bids can be considered with money in hand and so that staff members can concentrate on producing a good book. Describes methods used at a small Iowa high school for selling yearbooks and for selling yearbook advertising space. (TJ)

States that a yearbook can cover student life in a way that reflects student interests. Outlines how this can be done in the areas of student life, curriculum, clubs and organizations, sports, album coverage, and community information. (TJ)

Suggests that a major factor in current yearbook design is the use of a dominant factor such as a photograph in a spread. Provides information on how to use photographs, margins, headlines, captions, and color to produce a simple, elegant, and clean-cut look. (TJ)

Presents information about typography that student publication staffs should know; describes many variations of type use and abuse. (GT)