The phrase “as American as apple pie” is used to describe something unique to our country. But the phrase also could be changed to “as American as yearbooks.” The yearbook concept started at U.S. schools almost 150 years ago, and has not ventured far from our shores.
Some foreign exchange students who have decided to immerse themselves in life in the United States for a year have also taken on the challenge of working on the yearbook staff at their American school.
Kansas City, Mo. (April 19, 2010) – Yearbooks from eight Walsworth schools placed in the Best of Show contest this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Portland.
Kansas City, Mo. (April 19, 2010) – Five yearbooks published by Walsworth were chosen winners of 2009 Yearbook Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association over the weekend at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Portland.
Kansas City, Mo. (March 29, 2010) – Two yearbooks published by Walsworth – Cactus, from the University of Texas, and Griffon, from Missouri Western State University – were among the list of Pacemaker Finalists honored by the Associated Collegiate Press.
Kansas City, Mo. (March 22, 2010) – Nine high school yearbooks were honored with 2010 Gold Crowns by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association – with one-third of those yearbooks printed by Walsworth Publishing Company.
Kansas City, Mo. (March 15, 2010) – Three collegiate yearbooks received Gold Crowns and six received Silver Crowns, including one Walsworth Publishing Company customer, when the Columbia Scholastic Press Association awarded its top honors for 2009 yearbooks.
Kansas City, Mo. (Feb. 22, 2010) – Michigan middle school student Marissa Lienau got an early start toward funding her future college education when Walsworth Publishing Company announced she was the second of three $1,000 winners in its Student Scholarship Sweepstakes.
Kansas City, Mo. (Feb. 18, 2010) – C. Dow Tate, the yearbook and newspaper adviser at Walsworth’s Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan., will be the recipient of a Gold Key award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at next month’s Spring National Convention in New York City.
Kansas City, Mo. (Feb. 9, 2010) – Six yearbooks published by Walsworth Publishing Company have been honored as 2009 Yearbook Pacemaker Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association.
Kansas City, Mo. (Jan. 25, 2010) – Students from Walsworth yearbooks brought home 14 of the 24 first-place Sweepstakes prizes in the 2009 Yearbook Excellence Contest, sponsored by Quill & Scroll.