Senior Dorothy Slater said she was pleasantly surprised when she was woken up by the Echowan editors last year and given a position she had never applied for.

“We were all confused when there were 11 instead of 10 of us when the positions were chosen. It was a surprise to me,” Slater said.

Echowan, the high school’s yearbook, has a new position this year. Slater said this year she will have the role of the first web manager in Echowan history.

Echowan adviser Julianne Herbert said she thinks Slater will fulfill the new role.

“I chose her because I thought that she had a vision to really make it her own and figure out how to make it work without having any system in place to do so,” Herbert said.

Slater said she designed the website at the end of last year when she received the position.

“It was difficult at first to figure out how to design things because there was no one to teach me since it wasn’t a position last year, but it has gotten easier,” Slater said.

Herbert said the idea to have a website came up last year.

“It’s something that we’ve been thinking about off and on and trying to figure out a way to do for a few years, but it really came out last year in the spring with my editor because we get so many questions about the yearbook,” Herbert said. “It would be so much easier to have access to it with a website.”

According to Slater, the responsibilities of the web manager position include designing the website, updating it, writing profiles of the major staff and choosing which photos will go on the photo stream.

Herbert said the staff from last year had great photos and quotes that were not used in the yearbook, and the photo stream on the new website will provide a fun place to put them.

According to Slater, the yearbook will be available for purchase this year on the Echowan website, slpechowan.com. She said she hopes this will help increase sales.

“I’m excited that we’re going to have a website because it’s going to be helpful for us this year,” Slater said.