Eventhough my yearbook was a decade earlier and was high school, there is nothing remotely offensive in it. Nothing I’d have to be ashamed of now. It’s just the standard stuff showing I was in chorus, the plays, the various clubs and there are some candid shots of me in the classroom.
No one in my high school yearbook has anything to be worried about or ashamed of today. We weren’t that stupid.
Agreed, and ours was H.S. Plus, wasn’t his a law school yearbook?
His was medical school. I do have a law school and college yearbook, and there’s nothing notable in there. But only my high school yearbook gave us space/freedom to have multiple images, text, etc.
There was definitely offensive crap in my high school yearbooks, just not from me.
The worst thing about my law school yearbook is the photo of me with the perm I had in those days which made me look like Arlo Guthrie.
No grad school yearbook. College year book is super boring. The high school year book I had a whole page. It’s got a Tolkien quote in elvish, a quote from Sir Walter Ralegh, the Gordon’s Gramacie, a picture of Prince Rupert (nephew of Charles I of England.) The most questionable thing is the Gramacie, a traditional Scots rhyme which reads, “To curse and swear, and damn and lie, And that ‘s the Gordons’ Gramacie!” I’m pretty sure the whole yearbook was vetted by the powers that be before it headed to the printer. The photo of me, I’m wearing a cape and a deerstalker hat.
Someone in the class ahead of me, had put a photograph they’d taken of a working class older woman, and no photo of herself. So I remember we were told that we had to have a photo of ourself on the page. Photos could be of our choosing.
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This is a reminder to tell your high schoolers, college aged and young adult children to have only the most banal photos taken of themselves. With the advent of cell phones pictures are taken of everything and posted online.
Not only are pictures taken but they are shared all over the internet. Once on the internet they are eternal.
Is the stuff on someone’s yearbook page always selected by them? my high school didn’t have yearbook pages for individual students; I think I may have picked a quote. If my college had a yearbook I know nothing of it.
A lot of unrecognizable people.
I don’t know what’s in my yearbook but I know without a shadow of a doubt I have never dressed up in blackface or a white hood. I don’t need to call classmates to jog my memory.
I was the senior copy editor of my high school yearbook and so had much more involvement with the words than with the photos. But our adviser was very hands-on and very responsible, so I’m pretty sure nothing offensive made it past her.
One of my HS yearbooks has a hideous cover depicting a girl with long wavy hair. “Hidden” in the waves of her hair are “ the F word” and a drawing of a joint. Not sure how that got past the adult advisors.
Nothing I am in is offensive except maybe a few ugly fashion choices.
Nothing offensive would have made it past the editors and faculty. I know some students who were asked to re-submit their senior quotes. (1980s). Worst part of the year book are the hair styles.
In one of those random candids throughout the book I’m wearing a t-shirt that says “National Quarters Champion”. It was a t-shirt I picked up at University of Texas during a visit early Sr. Year. Not really offensive, and I certainly don’t regret it, but it’s funny to see.
@ebonyqueen15 growing up it was pretty common to see kids wearing beer T-shirts, pot leaves, etc. I can only imagine how that would go over now.
Had an interesting conversation with my oldest today about owning your image and how it might/should change in the future. We spoke about images on the internet, the rise of fake news and what recourses people should be allowed to have if something is published out of context/unfairly/truthfully or changed. Kid thought everything should be allowed all the time. I think people should have the “right” to their internet presence and at some point in the future will be allowed to control their likeness/info.
I am really glad I was a nerdy kid who didn’t break the law/morals etc . There are no photos of me out there which could cripple anyone’s career. I remember tee shirt shops where 90% of the shirts were offensive or something no adult with a job would want to be photographed in today.
Our yearbook had a faculty advisor too. Offensive photos in a yearbook reflect badly on the school. So all photos had to be approved by the faculty advisor.
HS yearbook only, of course there was a faculty advisor (who did not require the index my senior year, darn- spoke to the classmate in charge and she said they were bored with that).
College way too large to care about one.
Medical school- never heard of one until this incident. I do have some old school (negatives/prints) photos from class shows. So and so in various clothing for skits (female with sock stuffed bra, guy with bra…). The only class photos are the freshman and senior ones taken by the school. Who had time to produce such a book??? Or the funds to produce/buy one.
My high school had 6200 some kids. If I’m in any pictures, I have no idea.
College? No yearbook.
Masters? No yearbook.
Phd? No yearbook.
Honestly didn’t even know this was a thing until recently.