Jefferson Forest High School - Selvetta Yearbook (Forest, VA)

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Researching possibilities for a title, attention focused on Jefferson's estate. Poplar Forest, (picture from Lynchburg magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, p. 99.) The history of Thomas Jefferson's estate is shown on this road sign. Editors For The Students comes the development of a mind. Another vital job was designing the annual cover. This can be attributed to Greg. Devote a few minutes to our cover and I believe you will find it meaningful. We had so many problems this year, and not enough help in solving them. No one seems to realize the time and effort put forth to create an annual. The company does not publish your yearbook, the staff does. Not only did we need a name, a theme, and a cover design, we also needed a staff, money, ideas, and coopera¬ tion, all of which came slowly. We started out with a very large staff, but with few willing to work. I cannot say this without causing resentment, so I will clarify my statement. If I had been a better editor, there would have been a better staff. I'm not a leader — I lack organization and experience. It took us so long to get going that many got bored and quit, with those that remained finding the work to be just that — work, and tedious. Sadly, the annual is not made up of play, yet there is much to be gained. It includes the fields of business, journalism, and even art. But few re¬ mained to reap its benefits. Reve, my brother, was actually editor more than me. Neither of us had the jobs our titles implied. As editor, I didn't only edit, I was a section editor and an ordinary staff member, in that I performed the jobs of each. Reve was not only the head photographer (actually THE photographer) but chief editor, section editor, and copywriter. Greg stayed religiously and did a lot of the nitty gritty work. Artie and Angela also took on much of the responsi¬ bility. Mind you, Greg and I were the only ones who had EVER worked on an annual before, and that was for only one year, on only one section. Artie's main job was as business manager, which placed him in charge of all money transactions and ads. Angela, as editor of the People section, did very well. We'll never forget the night we didn't go to sleep until 7:00 A.M., due to the call of layouts. Mostly, it was just us, doing the entire annual, with an occasional helping hand. By the time we got going well, we couldn't take time out to train others to work alongside, especially since previous efforts had failed. Sarah worked diligently toward the end of the year, on sports, hopefully learning enough to continue next year. Anita Bryant, Dawn Hensley, and Nancy Watts stayed after school all year and did a lot of boring, tedious jobs we didn't have time for. A few seniors, Deborah Hale, Marilyn Calloway, Veronica Watson, and Dianne Calloway, who were discouraged in the beginning, after staying regularly and being bored regularly, returned in the spring to type and do other work thrown their way. Some people came and worked devotedly for a while, and, as soon as there was a temporary lag, left and never returned. So, although they helped a lot, I won't mention their names. Now, we have experience, a full year of responsibility's experience. We'll return next year, and create for you a much more organized, more efficient annual. But, YOU'D better help us. At the time of this writing, school has been out for over two weeks, and we still have much more to do. So you can see you are needed. If you don't like me as editor, you get in there and replace me. But, you'd better be sure you know what you're getting into, 'cause I'm not going to stop working on this year's annual until I graduate, and it's going to be great looking back and know¬ ing I did it! C — C-j If 3

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While at the Max Ward — Delmar Studios in Roanoke, editors Greg Allen and Nancy Carwile look over a selection of yearbook covers, hoping to find a suitable style. CREDITS Title by Reve Carwile Cover design by Greg Allen Theme by Nancy Carwile An Explanation By The I'm tempted to say being editor of the yearbook this year has been one big headache, but, that's not quite true. It's just that heading a staff with NO experience, and having little myself, proved to be a big task. Also, right along with the title editor comes responsibility. As the first editor of the Jefferson Forest annual, I got to choose the name. Great - I could pick the name I liked, but, it had to be a name others would like — a name fitting for an annual, something unique and interesting, and some¬ thing with meaning. It needed to tie in with our school. It needed to fit like Liberty— Minutemen— Heritage— Sentinel. Notice the relationship? Jefferson Forest High School . . . The name brings to mind Thomas Jefferson and the com¬ munity of Forest, as it well should. For, Thomas Jefferson once lived nearby, at his estate, Poplar Forest. I had hoped a name in a foreign language could be found to create curiosity and interest, but not just any word would do. Reve got us on the right track, and Mr. Sowell translated, leading us to our goal. The result was Selvetta . This Italian word, pronounced Sell-weet-tuh, means Little Forest, a direct association with the Forest com¬ munity, But, why Italian, and how does it relate to Jeffer¬ son? Jefferson's favorite language was Italian. Monticello, his home just outside of Charlottesville, got its name from the Italian word for Little Mountain. Selvetta — curious, interesting, foreign, and, most important, signifi¬ cant. After the name came the theme. We've only just begun was considered, for it is quite appropriate, but, it is also overused. We needed a theme that would create more visions. I did about one thing right this year, and that was composing the theme . . . Through the creation of a school 2

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