Petaluma High yearbook recognized for excellence

Petaluma High School’s yearbook, Enterprise, has been recognized for excellence and featured in the 2016 Jostens Look Book, celebrating the best-of-the-best in yearbook design and coverage.

The 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 the academic year.

The Enterprise was created by Shari Sanchez (editor), Shyla Barry (editor), Bailee Collier (business manager), Michael Baribault, Sicily Barry, McKenna Brockhouse, Alex Dodd, Whitaker Ellis, Katherine Grube, Hannah Huntziker, Yannik Kilb, Whitney Royall, Nicholas Schlager and Makayla Simien, under the direction of Christopher Jones, Petaluma’s yearbook adviser.

“This yearbook and the staff were very special for me,” says Jones. “It was my third year as the PHS adviser, and we had a really small group of students. In many ways, this is a wonderful problem because it keeps the group extremely close. Also, it can become an issue with the amount of work each student must perform. Regardless of this enormous task, our staff was amazing. This book had strong graphics, and the students put together an outstanding yearbook. I’m extremely proud of their work.”

The Petaluma High School Enterprise was one of only 494 yearbooks selected from approximately 3,000 submitted. The 2016 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 320-page 2016 Look Book.

The Enterprise is designed solely by the students of Petaluma High School. Plans for the book are completed at a summer yearbook camp held every year by the experts from Jostens.

The self-sustaining publication runs on a budget of more than $90,000. The income is supplemented by the sale of senior ads, parent ads and local business ads.