This is definitely a first for me (having perused over 8,000 old yearbooks to date) -- portraits in reverse italics!  I get it -- when you simply cannot veer away from very elongated oval photos, you have to do whatever must be done to fit them onto the page.  I'd say we've all been there, but I'm not sure anyone ever has been there except for Kansas State in 1908.  In the course of making sure reverse italics didn't have a better name, I encountered this blog post that reminded me about upright italics, but what really caught my eye was the banner -- a David Lynch-style Ricky Board with a row of basically identical stars, each labeled with a unique name.  

 

Here are Lynch's instructions:

—How To Make A Ricky Board—

by David Lynch

This board can be any size you want.

The proportions are dictated by four rows of five rickies.

Each ricky is, as nearly as possible, exactly the same as every other ricky.

The ricky can be an object or a flat image.

The thing about the rickies is you will see them change before your eyes because you will give each ricky a different name.

The names will be printed or written under each ricky. Twenty different names in all.

You will be amazed at the different personalities that emerge depending on the names you give.

Here is a poem:

Four rows of five

Your rickies come alive

Twenty is plenty

It isn’t tricky

Just name each ricky

Even though they’re all the same

The change comes from the name