You too can be a Yearbook photographer!

February 11, 2009

In 1989 I was a Yearbook staff member and met some phenomenal people, like Jackie Sullivan. She was a tall, thin wisp of a woman who worked in the Children’s Museum on the Northside of Pittsburgh. We lost touch when she graduated but a decade later I was the yearbook advisor in Mt Lebanon High School when the current advisor committed herself to a mental hospital. I didn’t think the job was that bad, and I appreciated the work that spring. I later was the Newspaper advisor in the Tempe district and came to realize the differences between both publications. After coming to Basha I’ve worked closely with Liza Sejkora and the students including yearbook and newspaper conference trips to San Francisco and Denver. One thing that always happens no matter how much we try to deter it, is that the same student pop up in photo after photo and the events are the same year after year, so when I read about the new Eshare program that the BHS Grizzly Gamut was using this year I was pretty excited.

This is how it works. You, as a student or faculty member, can go to an online account set up by Herff Jones to upload photos you’ve taken of school appropriate events, people, etc… This way the pictures that show up in the yearbook are refreshing, of different faces, and taken by more of YOU the students who go to school here. You may upload 10 photos at a time and have the opportunity to write suggested captions for your photos; this doesn’t mean they will all automatically be published in the Yearbook but it’s a great idea and some may be used.

If you are interested, navigate to www.hjeshare.com and enter our school code of 2001092. Locate your photos and upload them. Follow the directions and have fun!

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