2015 DALE Award Information
The Dale Alger Lifetime Excellence (DALE) Award will be given to a 2015 graduating yearbook staff member who has exhibited commendable dedication and commitment to his or her school yearbook program.
The DALE recipient is someone who possesses noble qualities of mind and character. He or she is determined, creative, considerate, responsible, respectful and a team player. He or she acts with integrity, humility, and sincerity.
The Dale Alger Lifetime Excellence (DALE) Award will be given to a 2015 graduating yearbook staff member who has exhibited commendable dedication and commitment to his or her school yearbook program.
The DALE recipient is someone who possesses noble qualities of mind and character. He or she is determined, creative, considerate, responsible, respectful and a team player. He or she acts with integrity, humility, and sincerity.
About Dale
Dale Alger is a yearbook legend. For over 40 years, he worked as a yearbook representative along side yearbook advisers and staffs to capture their memories in print. The DALE award was created in 2009 to honor his commitment to yearbooks. Dale's work has touched the lives of students, teachers, and administrators crossing many generations.
Award
The amount of the award is $500. The award is funded by The Yearbook Expo participation fees. The feature presentation will be at 5:30 pm. The winner of the DALE award will be announced after the presentation. The Yearbook Expo is on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015.
Qualifications
- Graduate in 2015 from a public or private school in Westchester, Rockland, or Hudson Valley in New York
- Worked on his/her yearbook staff for at least two years
- Plan to major in any of the yearbook related fields: Art, Business, Education, English, Marketing, Photography, Printing, Publishing or Technology.
- A 3.5 grade point average or higher
- Complete the following application form.
- Choose a layout from the 2015 yearbook that you are most proud of and explain why in a minimum of 1,000 word essay.
- Application form, PDF of layout and essay are due on or before Friday, June 12th, 2015
Contact Us
ned@yearbookadvisers.com
2014 DALE Award Recipient
An excerpt from a thank you note from Raffaella to her adviser, Gail Orfei:
"I always wonder what my four years of high school would have been like if I had not taken yearbook. I know I would not be the person I am today and I would not have discovered what I am passionate about. Thank you for making the last four years at Pelham an amazing experience for me. I am truly grateful for everything you have done for me and the lessons I have learned by taking yearbook. You have taught me life skills that I will carry with me into college and beyond."
Raffaella Mazzella
Pelican, Pelham Memorial High School
2013 DALE Award Recipient
The process of yearbook is a 12 month, jam-packed obsession filled with its stresses and triumphs. It took three seemingly quick years of notebooks filled with sketches and notes, tons of questions, late nights in the lab, to-do lists, to get to the level of yearbook nerdiness I’ve achieved today. From being a rookie sophomore and the leader of the marketing team, to being the first junior Editor In-Chief, followed by the first two-year acting Editor In-Chief my senior year; I’ve had my share of struggles, but each deadline and assignment has cultivated my unwavering passion. I am passionate. From workshops and summer camps, I am completely enthralled with this publication and I have loved every second of it. Every four a.m. session, hair-pulling deadline, every mistake and panic I am thankful for. This experience has been the driving force for my passion, my favorite memories, and my future career.
Nora Patwell
Panorama, Suffern High School
2012 DALE Award Recipient
During that time, I was able to expand my world as well as my understanding and appreciation for others and their circumstances. In my effort to ensure that our yearbook was inclusive of all groups and fairly represented the concerns, efforts, and accomplishments of everyone in the school community, I not only enjoyed delving directly into a story, but also saw the benefit of both a “bird’s eye view” and a “fly on the wall perspective” in connecting with the dynamics of student life and the issues of the faculty and staff and the community as well.
Rebecca Castagna
Doverian, Dover High School
2011 DALE Award Recipient
"In
the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henry, there is powerful line
that says “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
Yearbook taught me the importance of experiencing life completely by
being an active player in all of life."
Joanna Chang
Byram Hills High School
2010 DALE Award Recipient
Yearbook to me is not just a word,
it is a lifestyle a way of being,
a job, an activity, an object.
It is more than just a single world.
It is a collection of pictures,
of stories, of moments, forever captured in time.
Salvatore Schiavone
Nanuet High School
2009 DALE Award Recipients
Dalem Arsa Artha
Arimaspian, Ramapo High School
Ezra Margonn
Panorama, Suffern High School
Not Pictured: Molly Silverstein, Clarkstown High School
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