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June 3, 2009

In digital age, interest in traditional yearbooks wanes

Jessica Meyers:

Karl Lorin and Marisa Lander stood at the edge of Liberty High School's cafeteria in Frisco oblivious to the lunchtime circus surrounding them. Transfixed, they swept hands across glossy pages and flipped through an index in search of their names.

Then they snapped the book shut and handed it back to the classmates distributing them. Neither had bought one.

The nostalgia of this decades-old relic hasn't faded completely from the Frisco school, but the students' actions represent a growing detachment with the hardbound encapsulation of geeky high school moments.

The traditional yearbook is no more.

Liberty High, which pre-sold yearbooks for $60 each to about half its student body, is at the top of the heap. South Oak Cliff High School sold only a handful to its underclassmen.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 3, 2009 1:01 AM
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