PCHS Bulletin- Amelia Capellan
Published Date - October 10, 2025
The creation of yearbooks at Parrish Community High School is a yearlong process made up of photographs, creativity, and teamwork of the students as part of the yearbook staff.
The process has already started. Students have begun collecting photos, building templates, and planning to make a creative representation of the 2025-2026 school year.
Cary Jones is the yearbook advisor at Parrish Community High School. She also teaches commercial art, honors drawing, and AP Portfolio.
Jones specifically assigns pages to yearbook staffers. However, staffers can also request pages, especially if they have background knowledge to add to the page, such as if they are a member of a club or sport.
Depending on the size or layout of the yearbook, each yearbook staffer would be assigned 3-4 pages.
Jones also chooses the yearbook editors. This year’s editors are:
Co Editors in Charge: Avery Scribner and Ailani Maximo-Beltran
Marketing Editor: Leila Payne
Social Media Editor: Emma Wood
Graphics Editor : Callie Jones:
The editors work together to make sure the process of creating and preparing the yearbook runs smoothly. They use their resources and skills to make sure they are on track and prepared for their deadlines.
According to Jones, “They deadlines vary. We usually have 4 deadlines for pages throughout the year. There are separate deadlines for portraits, club photos, and senior ads.”
While the theme remains a secret for now, the yearbook staff work hard to promote and create the yearbook and can freely express their creativity and design preferences if they remain within the criteria of the theme.
They must also have approval from their advisor and the editors to gain suggestions or be submitted.
“Students are informed of the yearbook theme and are held to secrecy as to not reveal the theme until the book is distributed at the end of the year. They are given full creative choice as long as they are staying in the parameters of the theme. The pages are then looked at by the editors and myself for critique and approval. It is very seldom that a page is accepted the first time it is submitted. Usually there are suggestions to make the page more cohesive and fit our narrative.” Jones states.
Maximo- Beltran has been on the yearbook staff for three years. In her current role as one of the Editors in Charge, her roles include managing deadlines, assigning pages, editing pages, and working with the rest of the staff.
Her favorite part of this role is once the yearbook creation process has come to an end, and it becomes time to share with the school.
“I absolutely love handing out the yearbooks and getting to see the reactions to it. I just love the book in general and certain years’ books feel like my baby.” Maximo-Beltran states.
She helps work with others to ensure that everything is running smoothly by making sure that everyone's opinions are heard and that deadlines are being met.
“We try to make everyone feel heard and take into account and see what satisfies most of the yearbook staff,” Maximo-Beltran says.
Being part of this class is very important to her, and she hopes that after high school she may be able to put the skills she has built in the class to good use in college.
“I’m hoping to go into nursing after high school, but I do want to see if I can join the newspaper or yearbook at whatever college I end up. I think being the editor definitely prepares for the chaotic nature of nursing,” she states.
Other members of the yearbook staff also enjoy the class and work hard to make it something they can share and enjoy with their classmates.
Megan Ziegler, sophomore at PCHS, just began her first year in the yearbook class. She enjoys being able to be creative and have a say as to how she designs the page.
“I like how it gives me freedom of creativity, and I am able to do whatever I want with my page,” Ziegler states.
“It makes me feel important, and I enjoy being I charge of my page and helping others whenever they need. I’m able to be independent and social when I want to be, I can go out and interview people and talk to people or just work on my pages on the computer, it brings me out of my comfort zone, and I really enjoy that.” She adds.
Ziegler oversees the homecoming page, which is due a few days after the homecoming dance. She is also in charge of the art club pages which will be due in the spring.
She works to complete her deadlines by making sure she is prepared with anything she may need for the events she will be making pages of.
“I make checklists, check in with Mr. Pates, who is our Yearbook Supervisor, ask for other opinions and make sure that I have approval from the editors. I also create my outlines for where I want my photos and information to go on the page,” Ziegler explained.
The creation of the Parrish Community High School yearbook is an inclusive experience that the staff cannot wait to share with the school. They pour their creativity into creating something they hope everyone can enjoy.
The yearbook staff promotes the yearbook through social media, posters around campus, and emails to parents. Students, parents and staff can buy a yearbook at yearbookordercenter.com using the code #21334.
Those wishing to purchase a yearbook need to do it before the deadline, so they don’t miss out.