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Cabot High School Earns Jostens National Yearbook Design Recognition

Panther yearbook featured in Jostens Look Book 2022

(CABOT) – (April 2022) – Cabot High Schools yearbook, The Panther has been recognized for excellence and featured in the Jostens Look Book 2022, celebrating the best-of-the-best in yearbook design and inclusivity. The Jostens Look Book is a collection of outstanding yearbooks and their creative themes, cool covers, beautiful designs, relevant coverage of school events, meaningful storytelling, and stunning photography. Along with design excellence, the annually published Look Book honors the work of the students who create the yearbook over the course of 6-12 months. Through it, they chronicle the experiences, stories, and achievements most relevant to students and that academic year.

The Panther was created by Torrie Herrinton/ Editor, Jewelann Davis/ Co-Editor, Hope Montoya/ Design Editor, Taylor Sims/ Business Manager, Caitlin Curtis/ Coverage Editor, Avenley Kelley/ Lead Writer, Chase Hum/ People Editor, Staff: Alee Sowell, Mailys Thimothee, Jayden Grisham, Elizabeth Boliou, Jackson White, Summer Terry, Jennifer Hazeslip, Austin Lemay, Kady Knouse, Rebeka Russell, and Logan Atkinson under the direction of Tracey Hodge, CHS yearbook adviser.

“I feel like we definitely had a great staff this year,” editor Torrie Herrington said. “We had more people on staff this year and it was great to be able to divide assignments out and work together. I feel people got to participate in multiple aspects of the book.”

The Cabot Panther was one of only 458 yearbooks selected from nearly one thousand yearbooks submitted. The 2022 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 Look Book 2022.

“The Jostens Look Book showcases the hard work and dedication of students who tell the story of the school year through photos and words. It is their collaboration and communication, as well as creative thinking in challenging situations, that results in the fine designs shown in this book,” said Michael Wolf, Vice President of Yearbook Marketing at Jostens. “We are very proud to celebrate the ability of this country’s future leaders and communicators by showcasing their sophisticated designs and photography.”

Tracey Hodge and her yearbook staff received a copy of the Jostens Look Book 2022 with a plaque and banner from Jostens to recognize their outstanding achievement. 

The Jostens Look Book is rated as the #1 resource by Jostens yearbook advisers and staff seeking creative design and coverage ideas, trends, and inspiration (Jostens, 2020). The Look Book complements www.YearbookAvenue.com and www.facebook.com/JostensAdviserandStaff, Jostens online destinations for yearbook creation ideas.

About Jostens Yearbooks

Founded in 1897, Jostens has produced school yearbooks for over 60 years. Schools rely on Jostens and their local Jostens representatives to provide a combination of journalism education and technology tools to deliver a learning experience that helps students develop 21st-century skills in journalism, photography, writing, design, leadership and business while creating a permanent record of the school year. Jostens invests in state-of-the-art technology, best in class service, educational curriculum, and award-winning print manufacturing platforms to plan, design, build and produce yearbooks. 

About Jostens

Minneapolis-based Jostens provides products, programs and services that help its customers celebrate moments that matter. The company’s products include publications, jewelry and consumer goods that serve the K-12 educational, college and professional sports segments.  Jostens serves markets in North America, Europe, and Asia.  www.jostens.com