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Students to sell old yearbooks
The Citrus High School journalism department is adding a new event to homecoming this year: a Yearbook Yard Sale.
An abundance of old yearbooks are making their way out of storage and into the hands of alumni and others in the community Friday during the homecoming game.
Hundreds of yearbooks, dating as far back as the 1970s, will be sold for any donation from 7 to 9 p.m. inside the gates of the football game.
“Especially since our school burnt down at one point, older yearbooks are particularly valuable,” said Citrus High’s yearbook adviser Colleen Bennett.
All of the proceeds will assist the 2011 journalism staff traveling to journalism conventions and competitions. The Columbia Scholastic Press Association as well as the National Scholastic Press Associations conventions are located as far away as New York City and Los Angeles.
“Raising money will help us because we’re from a small town and businesses aren’t always able to sponsor us,” editor-in-chief Tori Michael said. “This fundraiser will enable us to go to out-of-town conventions and hopefully win more awards.”
At each of the conventions, the top scholastic journalism awards are given out; last year’s book was entered into competitions at both conventions.
At the Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s convention in March in Columbia, S.C., the staff won four awards: Best of Show for club and athletic design, and award of merit for advertising and academic design. The other schools present were from as far west as Texas, and as far north as Virginia.
At the Florida Scholastic Press Association Convention in April, the staff took home third place for an on-the-spot design competition.
Additionally, the 2010 yearbook was named a national sample book by Taylor Publishing Company, an honor reserved for only 5 percent of its yearbooks. National sample books are used as teaching and recruiting tools across the country.
The 2011 yearbook is already off to an award-winning start, winning second place at Taylor Publishing’s Florida yearbook seminar for theme and design.
“People don’t expect us to win, they expect the bigger schools to beat us,” Michael said, “So we’re excited to know that what we did paid off.”
The only books being sold for a fixed price will be any extra copies of the 2010 Citrio yearbook, on sale for $70. Extra copies of the previously sold-out 2009 Citrio yearbook will also be sold for $70.
“We take a lot of pride in being the school’s historians and we think it’s neat to offer these yearbooks from the past, so that our yearbook can be remembered nationally in the future,” Bennett said.
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