Battle Ground High School’s yearbook, The Bengal, has been recognized for excellence and is featured in the 2013 Gotcha Covered Look Book, Volume 11, celebrating the “best of the best” in yearbook design and coverage.
This is the seventh time Battle Ground High School’s yearbook has been featured in this publication. Jostens Look Book is a collection of spreads and photos from outstanding yearbooks and their creative themes, cool covers, “dazzling” designs, relevant coverage, storytelling copy and “action-packed” photography. Along with design excellence, the annually-published Look Book honors the important role well-crafted yearbooks play in helping schools chronicle the experiences, stories and achievements most relevant to students and that academic year.
The Bengal was created by 20 staff members and editors Seriana Morgan and Halley Riggs under the direction of Angel Morgan, Battle Ground High School’s yearbook adviser.
“I was really happy with the way this book turned out,” Angel Morgan said. “The theme, Here’s To You, was relevant to our students and captured the year. It is a huge honor to be repeatedly featured in the Look Book for our design. So much work goes into a publication and to have it acknowledged on an international stage is wonderful. It validates the hard work the staff and editors put in.”
“I’m really proud of this book,” said Seriana Morgan. “I liked being the editor and taking an idea from a scribble on a napkin to the final polished, published book. I like saying that was my idea. In some ways, it’s my baby. This book captures so many happy memories for me.”
Battle Ground High School’s The Bengal was one of 425 yearbooks selected from approximately 3,000. The 2013 panel of judges, comprised of nationally-recognized scholastic journalism professionals and award-winning yearbook advisers, selected the best examples of yearbook spreads and covers to make up the 352-page 2013 Look Book.
“Yearbooks are unique, limited-edition books created by students to capture the stories and events for all of the school’s students and Jostens is proud to celebrate the yearbook tradition and the 425 yearbooks selected for the 2013 Gotcha Covered Look Book,” said John Dalke, editor of the Look Book. “Today’s yearbooks are very sophisticated in terms of visual presentation and the relevant and inclusive content that is featured.”
Angel Morgan and her yearbook staff received a copy of Jostens 2013 Gotcha Covered Look Book and a plaque from Jostens to recognize their outstanding achievement.
