My kids started their elementary school years at Nibley Park Elementary in Salt Lake City. It's a good school that served the needs of all kinds of students from all walks of life and almost every economic level. Creating a free yearbook...for ALL the students...just seemed like the right thing to do. It was an honor (and fun!) to donate my time to it for four years.
Nibley Park's free yearbook started when the PTA saw that a generic book was being sold for ten bucks each...and not many of the students could really afford it. The solution? The PTA had earned enough from their activities and memberships to be able to produce a black and white yearbook, with a two-color cover, for everyone.
I had been taking pictures at school events and we were able to gather photos from the teachers, so in a mad crunch, I was able to put together the book and get it to the printers; which were able to deliver the books on the last day of school. Everyone was able to pass around their yearbooks for autographs... it was great fun.
In the three years that followed, the children loved to ham it up for the cameras and looked forward to the end of the year: Free Yearbook Day.
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