Ordinarily, a student’s portrait being left out of the yearbook would be a sad occasion for said student; however, junior Patrick Jones is trying to make the best of it.
“When I got my yearbook I was just kind of like, oh, well this is interesting,” Jones said. “I didn’t know how it happened.”
The yearbook staff is disappointed that students were left out of the book they worked so hard on, and did their best to compensate.
“It’s upsetting because it always sucks finding out someone didn’t make it the portrait pages,” yearbook editor Natalie Scott said. “I’m not exactly sure how he didn’t make the portraits, but I think it was a website problem because the portrait pictures were supposed to automatically flow and I guess they just left him out. We should’ve caught it before we submitted the page but we didn’t so the best way we thought we could fix the situation was giving out stickers so people could manually put him in their yearbooks.”
Jones was a bit surprised his portrait was given out as a sticker which has led to some unusual sightings.
“No one told me [my picture would be on a sticker],” Jones said. “It’s kind of cool I guess, it can be strange sometimes finding [the pictures of me] above urinals and stuff, that’s pretty weird, but overall its kind of cool.”
The yearbook staff, despite disappointment, is still able to find humor in the situation.
“I think hopefully [Patrick all over the school] was meant in a positive way,” yearbook adviser Jennifer Holcomb said. “I mean every single person that we gave a sticker to recognized his face, said “I love him!” and I had one person put a sticker on their lapel and say “Patrick for president.” So I think it’s a good thing, although I would like to see [the sticker] actually go in the book.”
Although he was left out of the yearbook, everyone in the school now knows who Jones is.
“Yeah, I guess [I’ve received more recognition],” Jones said. “Some people walk by me and they’re like “Hey, you’re Patrick!” and I’m like “Yeah, that’s me. I’m the sticker.””
