Rangers’ Reactions to the 2022 Yearbook

By: Katelyn Weddle

May 24th was Redwood’s annual Log Night where the yearbook staff handed out the yearbook to those who purchased one. Rangers both involved with the yearbook class and not involved share their reactions to the 2022 Redwood Yearbook Capture the Comeback. 

Yearbook Advisor Mr. Feehan shares that he is “very satisfied” with how the yearbook turned out. “Whenever a yearbook comes out, often we hear negative things: people picking on it, people commenting about things they didn’t like or whatever, and I really haven’t heard much this year.” 

Feehan admits that “there are a couple takeaways from it” where the class can learn that “ok yeah we need to improve on this or that next year.”

When it comes to selling the yearbooks, Feehan says, “it’s been selling very well too, which tells me people are enjoying it. I think it’s one of those things that it’s a good return to tradition because it’s more of a normal yearbook for a somewhat normal year.”

Feehan and the yearbook staff were excited because “compared to the last two years, it’s totally different. It’s definitely more of a normal yearbook.” The class was able to cover sports and events that hadn’t happened in prior years due to COVID restrictions.

Feehan ends on an optimistic note by saying, “It’s always a lot of stress but it’s good stress. I equate when we get the yearbook for my editors like when a baby is born. It’s like you had all this time ramping up to it, you put all this work into it, and so then it’s like ‘it’s here!’ It’s always exciting, stressful, scary, and exhausting, but it’s worth it!”

First year Yearbook student Mariah Villarreal ‘24 says that “it’s really amazing to see the different types of reactions from other people and students because you get to have a moment to tell yourself that you did that and you made these people’s year by creating something that they will cherish forever.”

She adds that students will be able to “look back on (the yearbook) when they are adults and smile at all the memories.”

As a whole, Villarreal says that “the 2022 yearbook is my first yearbook I ever created and it makes me proud, there is nothing that could change my mind on how amazing it is.” 

Ethan Stipech ‘22 is a first-year Redwood student, so getting his only Redwood Yearbook for his time as a Ranger brought up two contrasting emotions. 

“I am happy and sad at the same time. Happy that I got a yearbook and got to spend time with people, but sad that I did not get to do it the other years.”

When asked about expectations he had for the yearbook, Stipech said, “I guess I was expecting less.” He continues, “I wasn’t expecting there to be so much of everything. There’s so many events, people doing things, and just people in general.” 

Stipech ended by saying that his favorite part of the yearbook is simply “signing people’s yearbooks and people signing mine.”

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