1972-1973 Yearbook

THE COMPANY Josten 's/ American Yearbook Company has spent t he pas t 20years helping young people pub l ish th ei r school yearbooks . Today , American's fo u r reg ional publ ishing plants serve over 8 ,000 schools in the United States, Canada and several foreign cou ntr ies . But numbers alone have not earned AYC's number one rank in the yearbook industry. Facilit ies , se rvice, people and c reat ive ideas for t he fut ure have been the secret. FACILITIES Obvious ly it takes mi ll ions of dollars to build , staf f , and equ ip even one modern publishing plant. Think abo ut it a m inute AYC has f our plants and num be r five is under constr uction I Photoncomposers , IBM 1130 compute r s, two and four co lor presses , Nu-Arc vac uum frame pla t e exposers, automa t ic plate processo rs, li t hographic cameras, quicker t han the eye folding, ga t he r ing H OM E A CORESS 4 132 N . L I BBY Oklahoma City , Oltlahoma 73 122 Phone: 4 05 - 789 - 844 3 John Clark and sewing machines, and three blade trimmers, all opera t ing under the pat ient. wat c hful eyes of craftsmen who really care a bout yearbooks. Amer ican even manufactures covers for the books they print , leav ing no chance for error or delay in the delivery of the f inished book . PEOPLE Th e yea r book business is a peop l e business . Creat ive people generate ideas and ideas pave the way to a better tomorrow. AYC people have combined thei r ideas, sk ill s. and talen t s to open many new doors in the yearbook industry and have led t he indust ry in pioneering many programs and pract ices which are now standards of the business . THE FUTURE The fu ture is br ight. Ameri can has spen t the pas t 20 yea rs gett ing ready for tomorrow. Already AYC is successfully mar keting programs in photography and university publicati ons while deve lopment groups are st udying the appl ication of film making an d v ideo product ions at t he hi gh school and co l lege levels. Jost en's/ Ame r ican Year book Company is exci ted about t he f ut ure and you can be sure t hey wi l l be we ll pr epa r ed t o serve you ana your sc hool even bette r tomo rrow . YOUR AMERICAN MAN SERVICE Otto Josten founded Jos ten's in 1897. Me. Josten believed in providing better service t o area jewelers than they co uld receive f rom anyone else. Jost en's reputat ion for service con t in ues to be outstanding In eve ry a rea of the Jos t en 's (;o r po ratio n , and especial ly in the Yea rbook-Photography division . Every AYC account is assigned an in-plant yearbook con sult an t who pe r sona l ly coo rd i na t es a nd implements the product ion of the yea r book . This consultan t is backed up by l ite ral ly hund r eds o f exper ienced,cus tomer-ori ent ed spec ial ist s inside the plant. As a boo k passes t h rough one of t he plants the customer is constant ly being in fo rmed of progress by phone, by mai l and in person . Noth ing is eve r left to chance. JOSTEN'S American Yearbook Company BOX 795 TOPEKA, KANSAS 66601 31 7

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