Seniors at Arrowhead High School get to decide whether or not they want a senior quote in the yearbook under their photo.     Senior quotes were due on January 11th and are now closed.  Seniors were able to submit a senior quote this year unlike other previous years.

Senior quotes were stopped in 2012 because of the lack of interest, according to Lori Barbee, AHS teacher and former yearbook advisor. “Out of 500 students, only 33 of them had quotes in the 2012-2013 yearbook. We had to make space for the quotes but there were only three to four of them on each page, and the senior photos were smaller,” says Barbee.

Students order yearbooks prior to the beginning of the academic year during registration.

“A quote in a yearbook with my picture does not equate to a legacy which a lot of people seem to think like ‘Oh, a quote is the climax to my high school career and my life.’ It’s also something that will not stay with me. It’s also something I’ll probably never revisit. It’s also something I never want to revisit. It’s also something for people to remember me by, which I don’t want. I don’t have a specific senior quote, but it would probably be something sarcastic and really critical like ‘I plead the fifth,’ you’ll get nothing out of me, you can pry my larynx from my cold dead throat,” says senior Connor Zastrow.

“I couldn’t think of a senior quote in time because I never thought that we would have one. My whole high school career the seniors have never been able to give a senior quote. And I missed my chance by missing the deadline,” says senior Michael Smith.

An email sent to senior students from secretary Tracy MacDonald. It read, “This year we will include senior quotes in the yearbook. If you would like a quote in the yearbook, please click here to complete the form:  https://goo.gl/forms/xXEmMQLi90zd0JEG3
The form will be open until Friday, January 11. Please make sure to include your quote before then! Please note, submitting a senior quote does not GUARANTEE that it will be placed in the book.”

Students were able to submit a school appropriate quote with no hidden meaning or subliminal messages.

Some students didn’t see the email or were confused on the process. “I’m thinking of submitting one soon. I don’t know what it will be though. Where do we submit those?” says senior Andrew Mahaney.

“Oh. Well I still have to think of one. I don’t know. We’ll see what quote I can come up with,” says Mahaney.