For the second time since 2001, pages are missing. BETA students were left out; their pages will be ready by May 18.
By WAVENEY ANN MOORE
Published May 12, 2004
ST. PETERSBURG - The photographs of about 300 Gibbs High School students have been omitted from their yearbook.
Principal Herman Allen, who is completing his first year at the school, said the situation is being remedied.
"The children just want their books completed before they leave for the summer," he said. "We will take care of it. I'm not worried at all."
Allen said students in the BETA program, which offers business and technological skills along with academic courses, were inadvertently left out of the yearbook because most of their classes are not on the Gibbs' campus. BETA students mostly attend school across the street at Pinellas Technical Education Center.
"Sometimes things get messy in the process," he said.
"When they did the pictures over there, they forgot to merge them into the main disk. They are being merged. ... What is fortunate, though, is I've only had one telephone call from a parent. We will simply do an insert."
Allen said students will be able to glue the new pages into their yearbook. The inserts, which will be available for pickup in the cafeteria or sent home by mail, will be ready before school closes on May 18, he said.
This is the second yearbook mishap in recent years. In 2001, one page was missing and another had been printed twice. Then-principal Barbara Shorter told students that the yearbooks that had not been handed out would have to be returned to the printing plant in Alabama to correct the error. The decision was controversial, because students said they would not have time to get them signed. Students who already had yearbooks could keep them or turn them in for correction.
