The CKHS yearbook staff is hard at work year-round to provide students with a book that they can carry with them throughout their lives that will embody their high school experience. A finished product requires many hours of class time, after school time, students working together, organization, and weekend work days to meet deadlines.

Sophomore Evelyn Cook, yearbook co-editor for the 2015 book, explained the process of creating the yearbook from start to finish.

Students that enroll in Yearbook are invited to attend Yearbook Camp in the summer prior to taking the class. At Yearbook Camp, students attend seminars and learn editing skills and officially start the yearbook by voting on a theme. They meet with an artist from the publishing company and start the process of creating the book.

During the rest of the summer, staff may meet once or twice to choose fonts and update Yearbook’s style guide (a list of standards that must be consistent on every yearbook page). Senior staff will check the new roster with eager interest, hoping to have recruited hard workers who will care about producing a quality product.

Once the school year begins, veteran Yearbook students teach new members how to use Adobe InDesign to create and edit pages. Students work tirelessly everyday to meet deadlines assigned to them. Senior Cadence Royer said, “Working in yearbook is interesting because you get to see how everything comes together on a page.” Making a page requires making a page layout, getting pictures, captioning pictures, writing the story, and finally getting the page reviewed and edited.

A yearbook deadline is typically spread out over four to five weeks. Senior Charles Dodge believes the hardest part of yearbook is “finding the confidence to meet and interview people you don’t know.”

Once a page is complete, it is sent to the publishing company, currently Herff Jones, which sends proofs back to the Yearbook staff. Proofs are a preview of how the page will look in the yearbook. The class reviews the proofs and sends them back to Herff Jones, which then prints and binds the books. Books are shipped to CK In May.

The final step requires every individual yearbook be checked for quality by students and then books are distributed to the school. Edward Choi, senior and co-editor, thinks the final step is the most satisfying because “you get to see the final product of everyone’s hard work.”