Yearbook editors extend parent grad ads to Dec. 13

Yearbook editors have extended the grad ads due date to December 13. 

“In yearbook their is a certain amount of pages we need to turn in, so by extending the due date we can get to that minimum and get it were more people can submit their grad ads,” Tansy Velush, editor in chief of the yearbook, said.

For those unaware, grad ads are paid tributes from parents for the yearbook to celebrate the achievements and hard work of graduating seniors.

Parents can purchase grad ads on yearbookforever.com. 

“They can choose whether they want a full page, half page, quarter page or 8th page and the pricing is the 8th page is $50, and you can add up to two photos or you can add a message,” Velush said. “The quarter page is $70 and can add up to 5 photos, the half page is 160$ and you can add up to 8 photo’s and the full page is $300 and you can add up to twelve photos.”

“For grad ads, their are less guidelines for it then the senior photos, but ideally we want as clear photos as the family can supply, no heavily edited photos and such and especially because families like to send photos for their students as a little kid, so anything high quality is good,” Velush said.

Additionally, buying grad ads are a way you can support the members of the yearbook program, the profits from those sales go to making the final product of yearbook.

“The profit the grad ad makes goes to support and fund a lot of the resources for the yearbook and it’s just an extra thing that maybe the family wants to add on for their student to celebrate their achievements,” Velish said. “There’s really a variety of photos people end up submitting, a lot of them are photos of their student when they were younger and sometimes its photos of them throughout their life or photos of their family.

“It depends on how people really want to celebrate their students, it’s not necessarily to take any specific photo, but when they are choosing photos then they should think about what it looks like when it is enlarged on the page, and it all comes down to what type of photos and what type of message the family is trying to send, some people like to joke around a lot, but it’s better if its not some sort of gag gift and something more thoughtful and important.”