Each year, memories and cherished moments are all encapsulated into a single book that addresses all aspects of the year and their highlights, this is known as the yearbook.
Dallastown’s publications of yearbooks can be dated back to the 1940’s when their first yearbook and staff was created in 1946, 48 years after the first class of Dallastown graduated.
Since then, The Spectator has worked hard over the past 78 years to push out their yearbook so students can look and reflect back on their Highschool years.
The yearbook staff has already begun work on designing, editing, and writing for the 2024-2025 yearbook.
This year’s yearbook is edited by four editors, seven assistant editors, two Editors-in-Chief, and two advisors.
Current teacher, Molly Dallmeyer, and former staff member, Julie Taylor, have been advising the yearbook together for the past 13 years. The two organize committees, meet with head editors, converse with the yearbook publishing company, help with editing, and oversee the whole process together.
Sierra Krout and Sienna Seufert are this year’s Editors-in-Chief and are in charge of approving the theme, designs, the overall look of the book, and meeting with committees.
The Business Committee is in charge of promoting and selling the yearbook throughout the year. This committee is led by editor Carrie Rehmeyer and assistant editors, Tessa Henise, Zoey Edleblute, and Isabelle Podorsky. These editors and their seven staff members will work closely together throughout the year to create posters, flyers, announcements, and Instagram posts to help bring attention to the yearbook and entice students to purchase one.
The student snapshot’s committee is in charge of sorting out all individual photos for students as well as organizing and writing articles for club photos. This committee is headed by editor Jessica Norton, and assistant editors, Julie Cioffi and Caitlyn Simpson.
Neveah Farrell oversees the seven sports committee members as head editor alongside her assistant editor, Larissa Swisher. For every seasonal sport, the sports committee will assemble articles for each sport giving a wrap up of their season as well as putting in team photos.
The Student Life committee gathers photos and information from events such as football games, Homecoming, Mini-THON, and writes articles for these events that circle student life throughout the year. This Section is led by editor Amber leader and assistant editor Natalie Crowther.
Altogether, editors sit down throughout the year at various meetings to track progress, revise articles, edit pictures, and design pages according to theme.
“I like the feeling of being involved, teamwork has always been a good skill to have,” said current Student Life member, Ava Sanders.
The theme is the whole base for the book and the process of choosing it varies from year to year. This year, Krout and Seufert came together with Dallmeyer and Taylor to choose the theme and design the front and back cover and get it finalized as soon as possible.
After the theme of this year was chosen, committee editors and assistants were then presented the theme as well as the cover, committee members and students are not to be notified of the theme or look of the book until the book is published and distributed.
Now going forward, there is nothing but work to do in order to sell the book.
The making of the yearbook is a long and tedious process for editors and advisors, but even through the deadlines, conflict, and changes, it will always remain a timeless way to celebrate the end of a school year.
