In 1898, students at the University of Toronto founded "Torontonensis", the university's first yearbook. Fashioned as a remembrance of university, from its inception the yearbook was fraught with conflict and contestation particularly around how male students were represented and how their college experiences were made, and not made,…

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 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)

Urges yearbook graphic designers to use a simple and sophisticated style. Argues that every graphic element must have a reason for taking up space on the page. (RS)

The rationale for content selection and editorial organization of "Philosophy and Education: Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education" is explained. Educational philosophy is viewed as a field with three dimensions--personal, public, and professional--which serve different but complementary purposes. (PP)

Examines the journalistic characteristics of many recent high school yearbooks. (HTH)

Offers a roundup of what happened to high school newspapers and yearbooks when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. (FL)

Maintains that student photographers must improve their knowledge of equipment, elements of composition, and photo editing to eliminate weaknesses in student publication photography. (SR)

Suggests ways to apply some contemporary business ideas to school publications, regarding advertisers, sources, and distribution. (SR)

Presents a rationale for a comprehensive journalism program, consistent with the current "search for excellence in education," that provides students laboratory projects on both the school newspaper and the yearbook. (HTH)

Advises that good ad design, student and advertiser incentives, sales team organization, and hard work can help school yearbook staffs raise more money. (JL)

Examines the evolution of an Austin (Texas) high school yearbook over 80 years, examines some of the changes in its style and content, and considers the issue of proper content and coverage in a high school yearbook. (TJ)

Directs attention to many questionable characteristics of student yearbooks, including poor color quality, dull copy, uninformative captions, faulty layout, and dull advertisements. (GT)

States that, because of budgeting problems, more high schools are having to run their yearbook publication as an extracurricular club and not as a class. Suggests approaches to dealing with this problem, including preplanning for running the yearbook as an extracurricular activity and being a vocal advocate for maintaining yearbook publication as…

Presents remarks by the first-ever Journalism Education Association National High School Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Argues that few yearbooks present sensitive and controversial stories that impact students who read them, and that many yearbooks are nothing more than "public relations books." Suggests ways to present controversial…