They oversee a staff of 30 students, raise over $10,000, and create the layout of every single page of the yearbook. Seniors G Boubouheropoulos, T Russ, B Versprille, and junior A Will are the four co-editors that oversee the production of the 2013-2014 Kempsville high school yearbook.

The four co-editors begin working on the yearbook a week before school begins. “Over the summer we decided the theme, page layouts, colors for each page, and the fonts for each page,” Russ said. “This must all be done before school starts, and then when school starts we have to assign everyone a page.”

According to Versprille, one of the biggest responsibilities the co-editors have for designing the page layout is showing what pictures, quotes, and captions the staff needs to accumulate throughout the year.

Boubouheropoulos said one of the hardest things as editor is to keep all staff members on task so all the work does not compile until deadline day. “At times last year we’ve been here until 7:30pm,” Boubouheropoulos said.

There are four deadlines submitted seasonally throughout the year, and each deadline requires 64 completed pages that are submitted to Jostens, a publishing company that specializes in yearbook publications.

According to yearbook sponsor Ms. Mary Boubouheropoulos, there are several challenges the editors face to ensure a timely submission and publication. “In order for the publishing company to produce the book on time for our senior signing party, the final deadline for us is March 30^th,” Ms. Boubouheropoulos said. “That means we can’t put things like prom and graduation in the yearbook.”

In order to compensate for the lack of end of the year coverage in the yearbook, the yearbook staff offers replayit.com, a comprehensive website that allows students to continually upload photographs, and share graduation and prom moments.

“When you buy a yearbook you get access to that (replayit.com) so you can create your personal time capsule, and that’s a way we’ve been able to allow kids to have those experiences as part of their senior year,” Ms. Boubouheropoulos said.

According to Will, one of the major challenges they face each year is to fund the yearbook.  It cost approximately $60,000-$70,000, and the yearbook staff must raise about $10,000 through advertisements and fund raisers.

Despite these fund raising challenges, selling advertisements is made simpler this year compare to past years. “Since yearbook is a class this year we’ve required everybody to sell one full page of business ad,” Boubouheropoulos said.

Ms. Boubouheropoulos said this year they plan to order 900 yearbooks, and have a preset price of $75. The price of the yearbook is subject to change based on the amount of advertisements they sell, and money raised through fund raising. The amount of yearbook that are ordered are through projections of prior years. “We do pretty well and almost sellout most of the time,” Ms. Boubouheropoulos said.

According to Ms. Boubouheropoulos, there is one bill at the end of the year that they must pay. The yearbook club generally raises enough money to have surplus for the following year.

“We’ve never lost money, in fact, a lot of time we’ve raised enough money we can donate to other organization in this school,” Ms. Boubouheropoulos said. “We are all one family, and we believe in that (helping other organizations).”