Madison Contreras

Writer

Giving Marlow High School students a source of memories is the Marlow High School Yearbook Staff’s number one priority.

Throughout the course of a school year, the students on the staff sell ads around the community, pick a theme that, in their opinion, reflects the school year, plan and assign pages, and photograph the most memorable moments.

With the past school year being cut short due to COVID-19, the Outlaw Yearbook Staff was left with about three months of events to fill their pages.

In addition to being unable to photograph events from track and baseball to prom and senior week, the students were faced with overcoming communication obstacles.

Noting how the staff has grown because of the experience, senior Gracey DaVoult, Outlaw Yearbook Head Editor, described methods the students used when discussing various issues.

“Throughout quarantine, we experienced many setbacks. Zoom calls, emails, and text messages were life savers because without them we wouldn’t have all been on the same page about how we were going to proceed with the book,” DaVoult said. 

Speaking on ways the staff had to become innovative, Section Editor, Marketing Director, and sophomore Abbey Witt explained one notable change they made to last school year’s yearbook titled “Envision.”

“We had to change a lot. We didn’t get to do our prom page and a bunch of other spring pages, so we had to come up with different ideas to replace them,” said Witt. “On our prom page, we would’ve had the king and queen, a lot of people dancing, walking in and doing all things at prom. With everything this year, we had to have people dress up and send us pictures of them in their dresses and tuxes.”

Although the outbreak in COVID-19 modified the 2019-20 MHS yearbook in many ways, it also became an extension that would define the major news of the year.

Yearbook Advisor Beverly Cramton mentioned the additional information in the yearbook on the pandemic would become an unintended advantage.

“I think the additional add-ins about Corona will benefit people in the future when they will have interesting stories to tell their own children. Having the yearbook to show them will be interesting,” Cramton said.

After gaining experience in new technology and learning ways to be prepared for different outcomes, the Outlaw Yearbook Staff is looking forward to preparing the 2020-21 yearbook.