What About the Yearbook?

Despite school being canceled for the rest of the semester, the Hauberk staff will complete this year’s yearbook and ensure that it is distributed to the staff and students of East. 

The books will be printed and delivered to a member of the Hauberk staff’s house around May 11, but it has not been determined when the books will be distributed since, as of right now, it is unknown when the “stay-at-home” order will be officially lifted. 

Distribution needs to occur in person because some choose to purchase their book on distribution day, co-head editor and senior Lizzie MacAdam said. Shipping the books wouldn’t work because those people wouldn’t have a chance to buy them in person — and shipping would also add additional expenses.

MacAdam hopes they will at least be able to set up a distribution date in August since it’s important for seniors to get their books before college, in her eyes.

“This yearbook feels really important,” MacAdam said. “Something people will look back on and be like, ‘okay, maybe I didn’t get a senior year, but they still documented my journey and they still show all the things I love most about East.’”

The cancellation of school has also caused major setbacks with making the yearbook. Their final deadline is coming up on April 12, and they have around 40 pages that are being rethought due to the cancellations of spring sports, clubs and choir’s Europe trip.

Even though grades are no longer counted, they’ve been frequently using FaceTime, Zoom and texts to make sure everyone is working and on the same page. 

“We’ve learned just how much we put into this yearbook and how it’s not about the grades,” MacAdam said. “We spend so much time and effort and everyone on our staff just wants it to come out so nicely, and especially this year with it being such a crazy year and with everyone losing something.”

Though challenges have come with having to reconstruct 40 pages, MacAdam said this issue has created an opportunity for the staff to cover things in different ways. They are trying to work with what they have to make sure there is something to cover the activities that were affected by cancellation.

They’ve also made room to add a section on the coronavirus and the effects it’s had on the world, community and school. They also added a part dedicated to the seniors, since they lost the end of their final year in high school.

Hauberk’s main priority is to get the yearbooks to the students and staff so that they have something to remind them that this year was more than just the two months that were lost due to the coronavirus.

“For a lot of people — or at least seniors — we didn’t get a last day, we didn’t get spring sports, we didn’t get graduation or prom, but we can get a yearbook and maybe that’ll give us some closure,” MacAdam said.