First to finish: MHS yearbook off to production

BY CAYLEN GARIBAY 
The Tower 

Manteca High completed its 100th volume yearbook on March 21.  

This completion is the first one to be accomplished among the other schools in the Manteca Unified School Districts and well ahead of deadline under the diligent advisor Stephanie Campiotti. 

Manteca High has proven to be an impressive standard for yearbook deadline completion in the past seven years. The school has always been an early bird to reaching yearbook deadlines, according to former advisor Mackenzie VanWarmerdan, and this year is no exception to such a title. 

The yearbook is a collection of memories and photographs of the past year on campus that are put together into a book. The yearbook is created to look at the past and have something to have with you as you move into the future. 

“When we look at a yearbook, it is a year’s worth of memories on campus,” said Campiotti. 

This year is different, however. 

Recently a staff change has taken place and Campiotti is now in charge of the yearbook’s creation. She took over for VanWarmerdam, who was elevated to Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA).  

Campiotti has put in in a large effort to complete the yearbook for this year and has been an impressive leader in her field and to her students in making the yearbook at such a quick pace. 

Through a lot of hard work and dedication, the team of photographers have gone through the challenge of harsh discipline to create the yearbook. 

With sporting events hard to catch due to schedules and timing as well as winter break causing a slow beginning to the sports after the break finishes, the chance to get photos of such events can be a challenge for the team of students who are in charge of getting pictures of events and activities for the year. 

Also, some students have a hard time wanting to participate in being photographed, or getting pictures of certain people who don’t want to be included in pictures which only makes it harder to produce the yearbook on time as everything must be accommodated for inside of the yearbook. 

Sophia Nussbaumer has experienced and overcome many challenges. 

“The challenges in this class would probably be other students finishing their deadline because sometimes it’s hard to get like our pictures, especially when no one wants to participate in our pictures,” Nussbaumer said. 

Creating the yearbook has held another challenge in making sure to meet the deadline of course, and that can be tough for when some students tend to slack off or fail to use their abilities with a team on a very strict schedule. 

Although these challenges exist, the team successfully achieved a great and proud accomplishment in completing the yearbook exceptionally quickly, and the team is very proud to have completed such a challenge that has also been surmounted many times in the past. 

“I am very proud of the kids for getting this yearbook done on time, actually early because it takes a lot of hard work especially when we come back after winter break,” said Campiotti.