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title: Best Wishes to the Terrapin Yearbook
date: 2026-05-12T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Best Wishes to the Terrapin Yearbook

*May 12, 2026* — by [Annie Krakower](/author/annie-krakower)


> With Publication Ending, Flip Back Through the Decades With Past Editors

*Yearbooks 1920x1080 — UMD students captured an enduring record of campus life over the years in the Terrapin yearbook, which, after more than a century (and a few other names, like Reveille, Us and Terra Mariae), has turned its final page. (Photos courtesy of University Archives; animation by Stephanie S. Cordle)*

Bruce Springsteen rockin’ out for a raucous Cole Field House crowd. Juan Dixon sporting the net around his neck after the men’s basketball team won it all in 2002—and then meeting President George W. Bush. Feathered hair and tube socks reaching new heights as ’80s Terps tanned on the football stadium’s bleachers.

University of Maryland students have chronicled all of that and much more throughout the years in the Terrapin yearbook, capturing [an enduring record](https://www.lib.umd.edu/collections/university-archives/digital/yearbooks) of campus life from a third-floor office in the South Campus Dining Hall. But after more than a century (and a few other names, like Reveille, Us and Terra Mariae), it’s turned its final page: With plans for a 2025 book started and ultimately scrapped, this has been the first entirely yearbook-free academic year in living memory.

“It’s been a conversation that’s been ongoing for several years. There’s been declining interest, declining numbers. It’s just a trend that’s happening pretty much all over the country,” said Craig Mummey, general manager of Maryland Media, which produced the yearbook. “We held on longer than many.”

The roughly 2,400 college yearbooks being published in 1995 had already dwindled to around 1,000 by 2013. Schools big and small, including the University of Wisconsin, Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University, shut their yearbooks for good in more recent years. Contributing factors, Mummey said, include the increasing cost of production, social media’s ability to chronicle personal experiences and the pandemic altering how students view campus life.

Terps, though, are aiming to keep a glimmer of that yearbook nostalgia alive. This year, The Diamondback, also published by Maryland Media, launched [The Old Line](https://issuu.com/thediamondback/docs/april_2026_-_the_old_line), a year-end retrospective available both in print and online. With a shorter, more magazine-like feel than the Terrapin, the first edition covers sports, campus events like the First Look Fair and Homecoming, and all that snow.

“We hope that it will continue to grow and become annual thing,” Mummey said.

In the meantime, Maryland Today flipped through the memories with Terrapin editors from over the decades:



### Paul Souders | Editor-in-chief, 1987


*man stands in front of graffiti on wall*



### Beth Panitz ’92 | Seniors editor, 1992


*Beth Panitz, Journalism yearbook photo*



### Abby Robinson ’02, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’07 | Sports editor and business manager, 2000 | Sports and business editor, 2001 | Editor-in-chief, 2002


*Abby Vogel yearbook photo*



### Ana Hurler ’18 | Staff writer, 2016 and 2017 | Editor-in-chief, 2018


*Ana Hurler yearbook photo*



### Connor Senay ’20 | Athletics section editor, 2017 | Managing editor, 2018 | Editor-in-chief, 2020


*Connor Senay yearbook photo*




**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


**Tags:** [Alumni](https://today.umd.edu/topic/alumni), [Commencement 2026](https://today.umd.edu/topic/commencement-2026), [Student Experience](https://today.umd.edu/topic/student-experience)


**Units:** [Division of Student Affairs](https://today.umd.edu/topic/division-student-affairs), [University Libraries](https://today.umd.edu/topic/university-libraries)