What is "Out of the Blue"

 Letter from Warren (Co-Editor-in-Chief)

 Letter from Rebecca (Co-Editor-in-Chief)

 Frequently Asked Questions

 You Know Yearbook is Your Life When…

 Lingo

Out of the Blue is not only a common saying expressing surprise, it is also the theme of the 1998 Honker yearbook. This page is dedicated to those who people who put their life into this book. When told to get on with our lives when the book was finished, we replied, "What lives? Yearbook is our life." That was the way it had been for a year. We had thought that this book would go over well with the student body. We were wrong. The 1998 Honker is still causing controversy and therefore will be remembered as the most controversial yearbook in the history of the school. This web page will serve as a place for those who worked on the 1998 Honker to remember all those fun, crazy, wacky times. It will also serve as a place for those people out there who would like to know more about yearbooks and yearbook production. We hope you enjoy this page.

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What is coming out of the blue? Let me guess, a falling Senior, Junior, and Sophomore. Anywho, you probably think that this Editor-in-Chief is weird and you may think this paragraph is dumb. When I reality this paragraph is one of the most creative paragraphs you have seen. Therefore, I am having fun. Creativity is what I like and most people I know also like creativity. I will explain to you why the yearbook is the way it is.

The yearbook theme "Out of the Blue" literally came out of the blue. I decided the yearbook should be fun and entertaining. Therefore, there are two stories throughout the book and the end sheets (inside covers) are cartoon strips. On the back cover there is a silhouette of Mr. M******* above the bunny. The reason why "autograph" pages do not exist is because they are irrelevant. Be CREATIVE and figure out where to sign your "novels." This is an excellent yearbook and you should read it from cover to cover. You will have fun reading it. Thanks, Be Happy, and don't forget to SMILE…it is good for you!!™ J

"Mosquito Boy"

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/sociology/731/warren.htm

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Yearbook. What does it mean to me? It means long hours and hard work. This year's yearbook staff put in a bunch of hours and lots of work to produce a three hundred-page picture book in seven months. Yearbook also means you have to be completely dedicated. Without dedication, there would not be a yearbook. The staff was really dedicated; working at lunch, after school, and on weekends.

If you want something done, you have to do it yourself. This is the attitude several of the staff members came in with. They were sick and tired of complaining about the yearbook and wanted to do something to change it.

This year was not easy for the Honker staff. With a new adviser and only two returning staff members, everyone had to learn quick and work hard. Senior portraits were started late due to complications over the summer. But after all the bad news, things started to look up with the staff making their first deadline. This year, the Honker staff is pleased to present the first sky blue cover in the history of the school. All the ideas for this book, including the theme, came "Out of the Blue." Have fun, and enjoy.

"GatorGirl"

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/sociology/731/rebecca.htm

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(This information taken from the Attitude II)

Q: What's the title: What's the theme?

A: There is a difference between "title" and "theme." When someone asks you the theme of a book, you don't tell him or her the title. The title of the yearbook is Honker. It has been Honker since 1928. The first title was Hi Lights. Since the original publication of the school paper, the theme has been revealed to be "Out Of The Blue."

Q: Will there be color in the book?

A: If you have seen the book, you know that there is color. It's spot color. We as a staff could simply not afford full color. However, we left the 1999 staff with money and they are shooting for full color this year. Good luck.

Q: Why is the book so heavy?

A: The book itself is not heavy. Twelve (a case) three hundred pages books are heavy. If you think one is heavy, volunteer to move cases.

Q: Why weren't the Senior Portraits in color?

A: If the Senior Portraits were in color, the pages would be due at the end of September. This means that Senior Portraits would have to be taken over the summer. Do you really think the Seniors want to spend part of their summer sitting in wraps and tuxedos? Furthermore, why color things that are already black and white.

Q: How large is the [1998] staff?

A: Smaller than you think. At certain times, there were 15 people working on the yearbook. At other times, there were six. There are schools out there who have 44 people on their staff; they also have several pages of color. Needless to say, our staff did a great job this year.

Q: Did you ever go home?

A: Only on Sundays. Just kidding. Usually we went home between 5 and 6 at night on weekdays.

Q: How many hours did you spend working on the book?

A: 243. Well, we actually don't know, but it sounded good. It was quite a few.

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  "I was at yearbook" is your standard tardy excuse

  You wake up in the middle of the night with a new theme idea

  You call your adviser "Mom" by mistake

  You can recite the caption-writing formula by heart

  You get jealous because someone else uses white space better than you

  You know every custodian by name

  The yearbook room becomes your second home

  More people are nice to you because they know you are on the staff

  You freak out because a caption is a pica too short

  You won't take a picture if they're posing for the camera

  You know your job number better than your telephone number

  You cheer when your book gets mentioned in a slide show

  You use yearbook fonts for everything you print

  You find yourself padding the sentences in you English essays so you won't have a widow

  You crop and caption pictures in your photo album

  You start saving your files every ten seconds

  If anyone asks "Guess what came back today?" you know the answer is "proofs"

  You know that leading has nothing to do with a pencil

  You get mad if you lose your personal pica ruler

  You've proved over and over that the closer you get to deadline, the weirder your sense of humor gets

  You recognize the fonts as the movie credits roll

  You critique yearbooks for fun

  You refuse to read a magazine article because the layout has no eyeline

  You call your English paper "copy" by mistake

  The lead-ins in your essays are boldfaced

  You get graded down in English because you leave out the comma before "and" in a series

  You clear a place on the light table to eat dinner

  You know adviser is spelled with an "er" not an "or"

  You know that it is 152, 064,000 picas from San Francisco to Los Angeles

  You know the thesaurus is your friend

  You're always looking for a grease pencil

  You know better than to say something is impossible because you'll find a way to do it anyway

  Your whole day is ruined because a file crashes

  You have a yearbook T-shirt for every day of the week

  You try to find other ways to word your sentences to avoid using the verb "to be"

  Your non-yearbook friends pick up the lingo

  You fight over who gets the best computer

  You recognize a sans serif flush right reverse type headline with .5 characters per pica in a magazine

  You put an "I Y yearbook" bumper sticker on your car

  The yearbook phone rings…and it's for you

  You tell your brother if he does anything in high school, it better be yearbook

  Everything reminds you of yearbook

  Thanks to Herff Jones for their very truthful list!!!

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Copy: any written material including headlines, captions, photo credits, folios and body copy

End sheets: heavy sheets of paper that attach the book to the cover (front and back)

Folio: a page number

Folio tab: line of type appearing with the folio to announce the topic or section of the page

Gutter: the fold created between two pages when a book is bound into the cover

Layout: a plan or drawing which shows size and position of every element to be printed

Pica: a unit of measurement in the printing industry. There are approximately six picas per inch.

Signature: a group of usually 16 pages bound together, several signatures make up a book

Spread: a set of two pages

Theme: the central idea or concept, which a yearbook is built upon

White space: blank area of any page that is not covered by type or photos. Margins are an example of white space.

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