On club picture day, a lot more went on behind the scenes than students realize.
Yearbook staff editor-in-chief senior Cassidy Sparkman knows better than anyone the process for taking pictures of the school’s 42 clubs.
“Before all else we had to get a date for the event [to use the auditorium] approved by the administration,” Sparkman said. “Then we go through all clubs and make our time frames in the schedule based on the size of each club.”
After the schedule is approved and necessary changes are made to accommodate sponsors’ requests, yearbook staffers make passes for the teachers to hand out to their students. These allow students to leave class briefly at their designated picture times.
“Some of the larger clubs like Close Up, Beta Club, and Pals took a longer amount of time, so it was our job to keep everything organized,” junior Leah Pfannenstiel said.
Before the camera action took place, yearbook staffers also had to help set up the risers, lights, and camera equipment.
Jostens, the company that publishes the Pride yearbook, sent out a representative to take professional pictures the entire day.
While staffers like Pfannenstiel and sophomore Emma Wernecke helped set up classes by height on the risers, junior Kayleigh Loftis typed students’ names in the computer.
After the clubs get their pictures taken, each row of students would walk off the stage in the same order, so as to keep each name to each face when they typed their names in the computer.
Of course there are always some jokesters who may switch places with friends or change their names, but it’s the staffers’ job to weed them out.
“Some kids would make up names when they typed them in, like one student wrote ‘Mr. Eggroll,” adviser Pat Coleman said.
These jokes only made more work for the yearbook staff.
“We had to be on top of things and stay on schedule or else we’d mess up the whole day,” Loftis said.