Readers, if you are in school, please order a yearbook. It’s part of your personal history, and it can help connect you to friends, and the history of your youth, for years to come. Yearbooks are usually quite expensive, so plan and save for it – especially if you are a high school senior. Join clubs or organizations. Have fun, and record the details of your school experience.
When you are asked to write in someone’s yearbook, consider the following:
1) Include a “remember when” event that will connect you to that person – something they can recall fifty years later.
Examples: Remember when we sang that duet in the choir Christmas program, or remember when we both made the soccer team, or remember when we designed that weird robot and then entered it in the science fair….?
2) Close your remarks by signing your name. Please include both your FIRST and your LAST names. Print if your handwriting is difficult to read. You may wish to add your signature – even if you are very close friends. Your signature is like DNA – it proves it’s officially you, and who knows? -you may be famous someday!
3) Include your contact information, if you want them to stay in touch.
If you want some ideas of what to include in your school years, get a copy of LEGACY; A JOURNAL FOR TEENS AND ADULTS. This is a prompt journal that will help you records highlights of your life, and high school is a great time to start.