Yearbooks are treasured for years beyond your high school graduation even if one doesn’t realize it as a teenager. They hold the potential to create memories, to look back on the struggles and to look up that person’s name one just cannot remember from years ago.

Each yearbook cover is created especially for that year and each year they become more significant. For the 2012-2013 Milford High School Yearbook cover, a change has been made. The staff is offering a yearbook cover unlike the rest – 3 friends making a moment that will last forever.

On Sept. 28 during all lunches, a photobooth was set up for students for $2 dollars that provided a chance to go into a photo booth with friends and create a unique yearbook cover picture.  Students personalized their year by having their photo strip added to the yearbook cover.

“It’s such a fun opportunity to have a personalized yearbook,” said Sam Johnson, an editor for the MHS Yearbook “and it’s a fun thing to do with friends.”

Many students agreed. “I thought it was really creative,” said Miranda Mccabe, a senior at MHS, “but I didn’t like my last picture so I do wish I could have a re-do. But it was really cool.” Besides the fact that the pictures may not be perfect for everyone, having a picture taken is fun anyway.

The yearbook team has worked in past years to make the students, and even the parents happy. With senior ads, and mock elections, there is a lot of pressure to make the yearbook presentable. “Most people don’t know that our yearbooks have themes,” said Johnson. “We have had a ‘We are Milford’ and this year is ‘I am Milford.’”

Each theme represents the school year and reflects upon the experiences of the year.

“We wanted to do something unique that had never been done before,” said Christie McGraw, the Yearbook teacher at Milford High School.

If you choose to go into the photobooth, your photostrip will be inserted to the cover of your yearbook. “If we pull it off, it will be a great way to personalize each student’s book.” Mcgraw finished. Although the photobooth was a lot of work and had some students confused, knowing that the booth is an option got students excited to be on their own yearbook.

There are years when a yearbook displays a picture of students in a crowd, or a mixture of pictures, but this year students are guaranteed that their face, along with their friends faces, will be the first thing they see when they receive the book in June.

 “’I am Milford’ is very personal,” Johnson stated. “So we thought a personalized cover fit the theme well.”

The day was chaotic and had to be fast-paced to get through all of the students who desired this photostrip.

“They should have let us do it with any of our friends,” said Shayna Joyner, a senior at MHS. “I wanted a picture with my good friends for my yearbook cover, not just the people in my lunch.”

Because it was the first time this event ever took place, errors were expected and complaints were inevitable. The point was to make a customized yearbook for each student who wanted one, and that task was ultimately accomplished.