Challenger April

For the past eight years, Mrs. Cam Matthews has been the yearbook advisor. However, next year all of the responsibility dealing with Apollo’s yearbook will be handed over to Mr. Jonathan Paff.

“It’s kind of funny how I got the job,” stated Paff. “I was on the yearbook staff at my old school in Henderson, and my old yearbook advisor wanted me to ask Mrs. Matthews a question. When I went to ask her, she casually notified me that she would be giving up yearbook next year, and kindly asked if I would be interested in taking over. After a little consideration, I decided to take the challenge.”

Mr. Paff isn’t too worried about next year’s adoption of the staff, though. In the past, he worked for his high school newspaper and dealt with a lot of photography while on his high school yearbook staff. However, the program that is used to piece together each individual yearbook page is a big change for Mr. Paff. When on his high school yearbook staff, Mr. Paff used the program Ultra Vision and cropped all pictures the old fashioned way- with a pen and a cropping tool. This technique could take weeks to crop a picture. To familiarize himself with the program used for the yearbook, Paff will be receiving some basic training on Adobe PageMaker this summer.

But the yearbook advisor isn't the only change that will be made in yearbook next year. Even though Mr. Paff states that he has been very pleased with how the yearbooks have looked under the supervision of Mrs. Matthews in the past, he is considering a few changes with the jobs of the staff next year. In order to get the staff more involved with the book, Mr. Paff would like the staffers to design their own page layouts. Therefore, the co-editors won't get overwhelmed with creating page layouts and the staff members will be able to create pages that will better suit the activities that they're covering.

Despite the alterations that might occur next year, though, we all wish good luck to the staff members and Mr. Paff next year with the yearbook!