It’s Not Too Late to Buy a Yearbook

By Harshan Heer
Staff Writer | The Pacific Times

The 2025 yearbook is on the way. 

“The yearbook is going to look completely different this year,” yearbook advisor Sasha Guzman said, alluding to new additions and changes added by the yearbook staff.

While the theme is still a secret, students will find out in April 2025 when the yearbooks will be distributed. 

The yearbook is a collection of memories from the school year, which Guzman said that the yearbook team hopes can bring students joy, laughter, and nostalgia even 20 years from now. The yearbook reflects the student voice. This year’s editors-in-chief are senior Isabella Bravo and sophomore Kaylee Chuoang. 

According to Guzman, the best way to get featured in the yearbook is through staff surveys and emails. Guzman said the yearbook team greatly encourages responding to these emails as they would help diversify and celebrate more people.

Since last year, NP3 has had a program called Yearbook Angel. A Yearbook Angel is a program that came from Walsworth, a publishing company. If an individual is in a financial position to buy the yearbook as a donation, it will be distributed to low-income graduating students. An angel is someone who buys the yearbook, and it is confidential who buys and receives the yearbook. According to Guzman, the goal is to get one in the hands of every students kid who wants one.

Guzman said that a yearbook is a rite of passage and she believes everyone deserves to have one. She has bought yearbooks as a donation, and so have other faculty, but there had never been an official way to do so until last year.

Yearbooks include ads, which are opportunities for parents to leave a message for their students who are graduating. Students can also buy ads as a collage of memories. It is on a first-come, first-served basis, and they are close to selling out. The ads cost $75 for half a page and $125 for a full page. The deadline is Dec. 13, 2024.

So far, around 200 yearbooks have been sold. Guzman said the goal is to increase sales among lower classmen by increasing the representation of students from different grade levels in the yearbook. 

The current yearbook price is set at $70 and will increase to $75 on Jan. 23, 2025. The final date to place an order is Jan. 24, 2025. After Jan. 24, individuals may buy a yearbook directly from the website. 

For updates from the yearbook team, follow the Instagram @np3_yearbook.