I apologize in advance for all of the high school stories, but I realized that perhaps as a Yearbook staff we didn’t sound like we were the nicest people in the world. And maybe that’s because we weren’t. We totally made fun of the Zestas, and took inappropriate personal pictures using film purchased from the infamous SDHS Activity Fund (this was before that thing you kids call digital photos was big). And we harassed Rudy because Tina from Jostens wanted to hook up with him. But at least we didn’t do anything like this:
McKINNEY, Texas - School officials say they are appalled by altered photos — including heads on different bodies — in hundreds of McKinney High School yearbooks delivered this week.
Besides the head and body switching, some necks were stretched, one girl’s arm was missing, and another girl’s head was placed on what appeared to be a nude body, with the chest blurred.
Or did we?
Well, this part of we didn’t, but I do recall a certain situation where someone’s standard Lifetouch portrait got mixed up with another student’s. The PAGE/POS stickers were even swapped, so it had to be an inside job. But, the culprit never confessed. Luckily, Rudy’s eagle eye spotted the mix up, and they were able to sort of fix the problem by getting a replacement photo from the correct student. The only problem was that the correct student’s family didn’t purchase an extensive package of portraits, and the only one that they could provide was one that had been cut into a circle to fit in the 12 Years of School frame. So her jagged, cut-out head was floating in a sea of black background.
I have a sneaking suspicion about who may have been behind this, but it’s just another high school “riddle” that can’t be solved. Sort of like how Mrs. Smith encountered roads that were a solid sheet of ice on her way to school every morning in May.
I recall this “switcharoo” event rather vividly. Perhaps somebody had a lapse in judgement. Maybe it was even deserved. We’ll probably never know.
Left by Jody on May 20th, 2008