Cardinal Newman High School - Accolade Yearbook (West Palm Beach, FL)

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to tal e you Behind the scenes at Newm in? We shovyed you everything from i jmmer, to the first day of school, the t aicai days to the special ones, befor« and after school, including j weeke ids and nights. We even proved j that ti achers are real people too. A noticeable change took place in | the ' (0- ' 81 Accolade. An index was added therefore making it much easier to fin I the stories or people located throuc fiout the book. Each person in j each ' licture was identified, not only by ' name, but also by class. We took you | behin( the pictures with in-depth stories and i iterviews; it wasn ' t just another i picture book. ; A new section en titled Student Life ; was added. It highlighted what students I took for granted, such as uniforms, breaks, and friendship. It also included those lactivities vital to any high school studetlt, such as parties, weekends and breaki ig as many rules as possible. ; Mfeny long hours were spent digging j up the stories that went on behind the ? scenel. Almost every weekend and day | off. Advisor Ms. Karen Wedding, along | with other faithful staffers, could be found 5 in Roqm 407 working diligently trying to | make those dreaded deadlines. Ms. | Weddifig made sure that everything was | done n the proper manner, sometimes f driving everyone crazy with her perfec- | tionisrfi but if she was going to do it, it s was g|ing to be done right. Stories were | writter and re-written and photo assign- | ments were shot and re-shot until they | received the final okay. | Ai ter the final deadline was met, alj | of us went through yearbook with- | drawa , and was it ever welcome! Finally | we wtre able to stop living yearbook | and resume our normal Ives, but as we | did so we felt a sense of accomplishment,| because a journalistic precedent had| been set at Cardinal Newman Hight School. i -Genevieve Cleary, | editor! Lights in room 407 shone long into the night as .Genevieve Gl aj Accolade editor, checked and re-chfeGked j pts for that welcomed final