Yearbooks to be released tomorrow

Addy Buigas-Lopez Staff Writer The 50th Annual Round-Up Yearbook is to be picked up tomorrow, May 20. Be sure to visit the small gym and pick up pre-ordered yearbooks with a photo ID. If you did not pre-order a yearbook, there is a limited amount of yearbooks available for $100.

Gutierrez ’rounds up’ final year at CHS

Laura Kattilakoski Staff Writer High school has plenty of media classes to prepare students to take on their future careers. When looking back on her years Coppell High School, senior Tina Gutierrez has many fond memories of her time on the Round-Up yearbook staff. This year, Gutierrez is the academics section editor for the yearbook. Next year, she plans to attend the University of Southern California to continue her education in the journalism field. “I’m perusing journalism in college,” Gutierrez said. ”I’m going to be a broadcast major and take communications too. [Yearbook has] definitely prepared me for it because it’s a job setting; we work towards a goal, we have responsibilities, it costs money, so it [has] definitely prepared me for the work setting.”…

Students pursue interests at National High School Journalism Convention sessions

Thomas Hair Staff Writer Journalism is an incredibly diverse field, with numerous specialities ranging from television broadcasting to web page designing. At the 2011 JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention from Thursday April 14 to Saturday April, journalism students from all over the nation have the opportunity to attend a wide range of sessions covering every possible branch of journalism. The convention is being held at the Marriot Hotel in Anaheim, California. Today, hundreds of students checked into the hotel in preparation for the initiation of the sessions on Friday. Among this throng of aspiring journalists are the students from Coppell High School. Members of The Sidekick Newspaper, KCBY, and the Round Up Yearbook…

Round-Up 50th edition

By: Kara Adkins If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a yearbook must be worth a million. This year’s Round-Up Yearbook is particularly special to the heart and history of Coppell. It will mark the 50th edition of Coppell High School’s yearbook, exemplifying the hard work and dedication that CHS students put in to create a fantastic product filled with memories and recaps of the year. As CHS has grown from a few hundred kindergarten through 12th graders in the ‘70s to almost 2,700 high school students today, the yearbook has likewise evolved. Over the years, the yearbook staff has put more time and effort into making sure Coppell is proud of the…

Sarah Ditto yearbook finale

Staff Writer Paige Wilson It is not uncommon to walk into the yearbook room and see someone hunched over a computer engaged in intense concentration. Senior Sarah Ditto is often that person. Ditto is known for many things, such as her joyful attitude and sympathy towards others. However, in Round-Up yearbook, she is most readily known for her skills in graphic design. Ditto has been on the yearbook staff for two years and has been recognized as a Photoshop pro. And as her senior year comes to an end, so does her yearbook career. “Yearbook was pretty stressful,” Ditto said. “But I have a lot of good memories and made some really close friends.” Round-Up…

Round-Up Yearbook finalizes plans for distribution

Frances Ruiz Staff Writer Beginning at eight tomorrow morning the 2010 Round-Up Yearbook will be available for those who ordered a book in the fall as well as for students in need of purchasing one. Books will be sold for 100 dollars with cash as the only payment method and can be picked up by students that have already ordered and paid for one so long as a method of photo identification is provided. The yearbook staff can be found distributing books in the small gym at CHS during every period. Although distribution will take place throughout the school day tomorrow, books can be picked up and purchased in Yearbook adviser Rachel Pellegrino’s classroom during…

Round-Up Yearbook prepares for annual distribution

Frances Ruiz Staff Writer It’s almost here! Having been a full 10 months since we all ordered, purchased, posed in pictures for and bought senior ads for the 2010 Round-Up Yearbook, CHS students anticipate it’s arrival while members of the yearbook staff prepare for “D-Day”, the day of distribution. With over 400 pages, students can look forward to seeing shots of themselves and their friends throughout the seasons. Categorized into Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring sections, the book features classes new to the school year such as Chinese as well as programs newly implemented such as MAP and Rachel’s Challenge. Although the day of distribution remains a week away, the yearbook staff will be prepping for May 21 throughout each…

Yearbook pictures Friday Feb. 26 in large gym

by Melissa Brisco staff writer Each year the Round up yearbook staff plans a day to take all of the organization photos. This includes: clubs, group and extracurricular activities. This day was originally supposed to be Friday, Feb. 12, however that day of school was cancelled due to the six plus inches of snow. The makeup day for the yearbook photos will be this Friday, Feb. 26 in the large gym. Yearbook will be in the gym all day, starting before school and finishing after school, taking pictures. If you are in a club or organization, be sure to contact your sponsor to see what time your yearbook photo is. To contact the Round up…

Photography ‘clicks’ for Carlile, photos to be sold at Urban Outfitters

  By Chris Nguyen Features Editor Click. Senior Loren Carlile captures a moment in time with her camera and knows that is it. That composition. That lighting. That perspective. It just works. “It sounds so cheesy, but I can feel it,” Carlile said. “Like I know when a picture looks good, especially when I’m in it. I know what I look like and I guess what I’m trying to say is I kind of view things through a viewfinder – I guess I just have natural viewfinder – and so I can just tell when there is a good photograph there.” It is a skill and talent that is all the more impressive when considering Carlile just…

Yearbook pranks it’s own

First year Yearbook staff members awoke this morning to be visited by their fellow senior members carrying bundles of wacky clothes in honor of Yearbook Wake Up day. “Today’s when all the senior staff members wake up the junior staff members early and make them wear something ridiculous to school.  They have to wear it all day and can’t take it off,” said senior Micaela Rosinski. “I was lucky, they just dressed me up as an elf or something.” Students could see roaming the hallways today students wearing random coats, seperate pairs of shoes, and bizarre hats. “When they handed me the hat to wear, I thought I was going to get out of it…