Jim Jordan's 40 Things To Do After The Yearbook Is Done

MORE TIME TO CELEBRATE

20. CELEBRATE YOUR BABY’S BIRTH In the fall, many staffs around the country hold a mock staff wedding ceremony together to symbolically unite the staff and bond them together as a family. Following the metaphor, it’s completely appropriate after nine months have passed to celebrate the birth of your new baby with a shower and birth announcements. Another excuse for a yearbook party! Once the yearbook arrived in May and we had a chance to examine it carefully to see just how gorgeous she was, we would post on social media to all our friends around the country. Some staffs hold design contests to see who can design the best birth announcements. Others pass out bubble gum cigars on distribution day. Love your baby and celebrate the birth! 21. PLAN A STAFF BANQUET One of the highlights of our year is always the yearbook staff banquet we hold during the last week of April or first week of May to kick off the end-of-the-year activities. The original purpose, beyond celebrating that we had created an amazing book, was to let all the parents know more of what we had been doing together, working such long and hard hours, since school began. We would have it in the banquet hall of a local restaurant, trying to keep the cost as reasonable as possible. The staff would dress up in their best clothes and, one year, it was the Monday after prom, so everyone wore their prom dresses and tuxedos. We invited administrators and teachers who the editors felt had supported us and to whom they felt particularly close, and they were named our “honored guests.”

Banquet Recognition . The Decamhian staff kicks off the end-of-the-year events with a staff banquet to celebrate with parents, teachers and friends the hard work they have done together to create the yearbook.

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