With only 400 yearbooks purchased at South Tahoe High School last year, new Principal Chad Houck wanted to change that fact.
“The yearbook is a timeless record of each year at the high school,” Houck said in a letter to parents. ” It is a symbol of belonging to something good and important. It is also one of the traditions that students end their year with and can set the excitement for the next school year.”
With just over 1,000 students at the school, Houck set on a mission this year to give every one of them a yearbook. He reached out to community members, clubs, parents and staff to find a way to collect the $50,000 needed to give all students a yearbook.
“As of today we’ve raised abut $38,000 and more is coming in,” Houck said.
The yearbooks will be handed out at the end of May.
At Tuesday’s LTUSD Board meeting, the company that published the yearbook, Walsworth Publishing, presented STHS with an award for their yearbook. Natasha McGinn of Walsworth said the school’s yearbook will be shared across the country as an example of a quality memento of memories and photographs.
The 2014-15 yearbook editors Brooke Jorgenson and Emily Amenian, advisor Robyn Linder and the 2015-16 editor Kristen Harnett were all at the meeting to receive the award and to share the newly published yearbook with the board.