The former yearbook adviser had kept several copies over the years, deNijs said, as well as of the most recent yearbooks. In the past, the yearbook program has ordered extra copies to sell, she said. Students also often forget to pick up their copies — leading to a large accumulation of yearbooks.
The program has been selling the yearbooks by word of mouth for the past few years, she said, but decided to make them available to the public as a fundraiser for the yearbook program.
“Because we’re trying to keep our budget solvent, we decided this might be a good time to rid of some of those old backup books,” deNijs said.
The sale will also free up space in the new building, deNijs said.
“We’re not going to lug a lot of old yearbooks around,” she said.
The school doesn’t have all editions available, deNijs said.
“Some years we have a lot and some years we have one or two,” she said.
The program hopes to sell the remaining 100 yearbooks available before the transition to the new school in the fall of 2018.
“It’s a lot of books to move and store,” she said. “Our hope is that we can get them into as hands of people who want them as possible.”
For more information about the available editions, contact deNijs by phone at 937-653-1412 or e-mail at katie.denijs@urbanacityschools.org.
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