The 2009-2010 yearbook staff.  Front row, left to right:  Sadie Larsen, Jennifer Bate and Kristi Hatch.  Middle row:  Tyler Oman, Spencer Duncan and MacKenzie Pullman.  Back row:  Zach Droubay and Kyle Gashler.

.
Spencer Duncan
SJHS Staff Writer

Springville Junior High School has a fun class that designs the yearbook.  The teacher of this class is none other than Ms. Rachel Neeley, who is also a seventh grade English teacher.  Eight students take part in the Yearbook class for a full year.

Ms. Neeley said the rules the staff follows are “Work hard, be respectful, and be responsible.”  Even though the staff has rules to follow, they also have privileges.  These include deciding what the yearbook is like and getting to do their assignments at their own pace.  Jennifer Bate, a yearbook staff member, said she wanted to be in the yearbook staff because “I thought it would be fun and a great way to express my ideas.”

Jennifer also explained that students will like the yearbook because “there are cool page features that will emphasize cool and funny things that will be enjoyable to look at and read!  There are also pictures of all your friends and stuff like that!”

The yearbook staff members use a program called Yearbook Avenue by Jostens to design the yearbook.  The theme for the yearbook is a secret so everyone can have a surprise at the end of the year.

Brittany Blackmon
SJHS Staff Writer

It’s that time of the year again when all the memories of the start of the school come rushing back. That’s right, it’s the end of the school year when the students receive their yearbooks and look back on all the days they said they wished school was over. On May 26th, students will receive their yearbooks, but the students with fines will have to wait until, May 29th, the last day of school. Students will be signing yearbooks on May 28th and 29th.

Students will be given their yearbooks and go around and have their friends sign each others books. Thursday the 28th is a regular school schedule, and teachers might also have some activities planned. “It is fun to look through the yearbook and remember the school year,” said Ms. Rachel Neeley, the yearbook advisor at SJHS.  Imagine yourself 10 years from now and looking back through your yearbooks. You’d be amazed at how much has changed since then.

Mrs. Brenda Bales, an attendance secretary at SJHS, said, “I love being able to tell the kids goodbye, and I like the happy relaxed atmosphere.” When the time comes to sign yearbooks, a lot of things change. Friends start to miss each other, everyone starts making plans for summer, and others just look back and say “Remember when we acted like total goofs?” Yearbooks are part of the best memories we share.

If you buy your yearbook by this Friday (May 15th) you will be entered into a drawing to win a FREE i-Pod Shuffle.  You can buy your yearbook for $20.00 from Mrs. Murdock in the finance office.

Rylee Vest
SJHS Staff Writer

Yearbooks are here! Students will be getting their year books on Tuesday, May 26th during 8th period. In order to get their yearbook, students cannot have any fines and all fees must be paid by Tuesday, May 26th.  Students may have fines if they have overdue or lost library books, missing text books, past-due lunch accounts or classroom fines.

Everyone is excited to see the new yearbooks. Mariah Snyder, a student at SJHS said, “I am happy we have yearbooks so we can remember all of our friends and classmates, so we remember and can look back on our other years as we are older.”

Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer

The end of the year is coming up fast, so get ready for summer! Some of the events that are coming up are last chance dance on May 14th, and awards assembly on May 22nd, yearbook signing which starts on the 28th, and best of all…Lagoon!

Most students are excited for Lagoon which will be on May 27th. Unlike other schools, Springville Junior High School lets seventh, eighth, and ninth graders go. Mr. Trent Mikesell, an English teacher at Springville Junior said, “I think that going to Lagoon is fun, and it builds up our school community. Students should remember school as an enjoyable place as well as a place of learning.

Mr. Mikesell also said, “I am very excited for summer. Teaching is a great job because you get a break every summer to do whatever you want.” When asked what he would be doing for the summer he said, “My wife is about to have a baby, so I get to learn to be a dad. I will also be going up to my parents’ cabin to go 4-weeling and rafting.”

Seventh grader MacKenzie Pullman said, “In some ways I’m excited for summer, but in some ways I’m not. I will miss the teachers here and friends. But I also like having a break. It gives me time to go on trips with my family, like we are going on a cruise to Alaska.”  She also said that she thinks one of the most fun things at the end of the year is being on the track team. “This school is way better then elementary!” MacKenzie said. According to MacKenzie, most of her friends are excited for summer and all the fun activities that they will be able to do.

Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer

It’s that time again! Students who want to get a yearbook need to get it now. The price for a yearbook is $20.00, and students need to take the money to Mrs. Murdock in the front office. Students should definitely get a yearbook. Looking through a yearbook is a fun way to remember the year.

“Some of us are too lazy to do scrapbooking, or don’t have a camera, but the yearbook has a whole bunch of pictures from the year laid out for you!” said Kreslynn Knouse, a ninth grade student at SJHS.

The yearbook has other uses too. Ms. Rachel Neeley, the yearbook teacher at SJHS, says it is fun to have all your friends write notes to you at the end of the year in your yearbook.

The yearbook staff worked really hard to put together this year’s yearbook. They have tried hard to include as many students as possible in the yearbook. When asked about getting everyone in the yearbook, Aleks Newman, a member of the yearbook staff said, “It’s pretty hard. You have to take tons of pictures. Some people want to be in them, and some people don’t.”

Order your yearbook before we run out! Bring $20 to Mrs. Murdock in the front office as soon as possible!

by Shayla Tanner
SJHS Staff Writer

Ms. Neeley, a teacher at the Springville Junior, High was asked to be the new yearbook teacher in late March, after last year’s yearbook teacher left. Ms. Neeley said, “I was really excited to teach yearbook, but I was also nervous. I was on yearbook staff when I was in junior high, so I knew it would be really fun, but I was nervous about everything that I would have to organize.”

In yearbook Ms. Neeley teaches the students about taking good pictures, making creative layouts, and organizing the yearbook. The students of yearbook staff are in charge of designing the yearbook, taking and editing pictures, giving surveys, picking the cover design, and deciding on the theme.

Every year there is a new yearbook staff. This year there are seven students. We had the chance to interview three of those students. We interviewed Allison Udall, Alyssa Payne, and Kyle Gashler. Allison Udall said that she likes taking yearbook because there are a lot of good kids in that class. Kyle Gashler said he loves taking yearbook because it gives you a sense of accomplishment. “Yearbook is not an easy class, in the beginning it’s easy, but it gets harder throughout year,” Alyssa Payne explained.