Lecanto High School is not only proud of its ‘A’ school grade, but its yearbook, too. For the second consecutive year LHS’s “Legacy” yearbook has been selected as a National Sample Book by Balfour Publishing. “Every year our publisher — Balfour Publishing — selects yearbooks among the middle schools, high schools and colleges that they publish to use as National Sample Books,” said “Legacy” advisor Beverly Sylvester. “About 2 percent of all of the books that they publish are selected for this.” Sylvester explained that these books are utilized at workshops as “good example books.” The selection is not based on a completed package but, instead, on the current 360-page colored book in progress. Our students do every aspect of the book,” Sylvester said. “We have a professional photographer that takes pictures for us but the students take the majority of the pictures. They write the stories and captions. We don’t use templates so they create their own layouts with Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. They do sales and advertising. I oversee the process but they pretty much do every aspect.” Staffers through editors-in-chief — freshmen through seniors — contribute to the lengthy process. “The students are very excited but it also puts a lot of pressure on them to make sure that this is the very best book,” Sylvester said. “All those kids across the country are going to be looking at their book. Also, it kind of lights a fire under the juniors to do the best that they can do so that their book, when they are seniors, will have the same distinction.” Sylvester said she is proud of her staff and the year book and hopes students are, too. For seven years in a row the purchase price has remained the same and she hopes this can continue with increased sales. The “Legacy” maintains membership in the Florida Scholastic Press Association, Journalism Education Association, American Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:02:17 +0000
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