Since May of 2012, the Yearbook staff has been planning the 2013 Hornet Yearbook.

“We started in May of last year,” senior editor Amber Easterly said. “We started a year in advance.”

The 29 staff members collaborated together both in class and at camp in Dallas to design the Yearbook. Editors Easterly and senior Sydney Cowell both created a theme and look in Dallas.

“We [Easterly and Cowell] designed a theme in Dallas. I actually got the theme from a sermon,” Cowell said. “Sorrows [adviser] kept telling us we couldn’t use a theme from camp, but we convinced her.”

Each day during third block, staff members worked on ideas and also worked to design pages and layout.

The yearbook received “Best of ASPA” at the Arkansas Journalism Convention in April. Also, both Cowell and Easterly won “Yearbook Editors of the Year”.

“We have worked through frustration and tears,” Cowell said. “[senior] Parker Pamplin deserves a lot of credit for her hard work.”

Yearbook distribution is Monday, May 13 for grades 10 through 12; first Block, seniors, second block, juniors, third block, sophomores.

“There are definitely surprises in this yearbook,” Cowell said. “We call distribution day Christmas Day because we are like the parents and the students finally get to see the book.”