Sadie Batchis (284)

Every year, Central students work together to create the yearbook for the graduating class with Spanish teacher, Ms. Vashierrez, as its sponsor. Ms. Vashierrez decided to sponsor the yearbook club because she wanted a change from her “daily Spanish II to Spanish III routine.” With her creativity and love for working with students, she’s the perfect teacher for the job. Ms. Vashierrez loves seeing how her seniors work together to create the yearbook. She says, “I’m just the person who organizes and keeps everybody on track. My input is not really necessary— this room is filled with a lot of creative people and they all have a lot of very cool ideas.”

There are three Editors in Chief on the yearbook team, including Nailah Agyeman (284), Jadyn Dutton (284), and Maura Malcarney (284).

Nailah loves that she can be herself while working with the yearbook team: “I just like that I can be un-serious because I don’t like being serious all the time,” she says. She describes herself as very outgoing with a lot of ideas to share, some main reasons she pursued her role as an Editor-in-chief. When deciding to join, she was also thinking about how she wanted to be able to help other people put their ideas into action alongside her. 

Jadyn joined yearbook because she wanted to be part of more activities during her high school years, saying, “I’m a big fan of big projects and stuff that you work towards for such a long time because I feel like it’s really satisfying to see everyone’s hard work just come together to make something that everyone can really enjoy and appreciate.” The community that yearbook creates and revolves around is part of why Jadyn loves her role. 

Maura likes staying busy. She “enjoy[s] just having things going on [and] projects to work on.” The leadership role is important to her as she feels she can create an enjoyable environment where everyone involved in yearbook can work to the best of their ability. Maura was able to meet new friends she probably would not have met otherwise and now gets to see every morning. She expresses that, “it’s nice to get to spend my morning with a bunch of people who are all here for the same reason and are all contributing toward a common goal.”

Despite the benefits, managing the yearbook has its frustrations as well. Ms. Vashierrez admitted that “The most annoying part is making sure that we don’t let anything fall through the cracks.” There is a lot to keep track of; yearbook is made up of a large group of students split into ten departments each run by one of three Editors-in-Chief. There needs to be constant communication and check-ins with everyone, a struggle shared by both Ms. Vashierrez and the editors. Also, obtaining all the necessary content from students and staff can be difficult, especially when it comes to portraits. Ms. Vashierrez sends very nice messages to students to schedule their portraits and staff to update theirs every year, and she says that convincing people can be quite a pain. 

Overall, it seems that being a yearbook editor is a delightful yet challenging role.