P'burg's yearbook page to be replaced Controversial picture will be removed, another photograph substituted. Thursday, June 15, 2006 • From Staff Reports • The Express-Times PHILLIPSBURG | A Phillipsburg School District official said Wednesday a page cut from 2006 high school yearbooks earlier this week will be replaced within a few days. Superintendent Gordon Pethick said Jostens, the yearbook's publisher, is reprinting Page 224 on paper with an adhesive edge so students can affix it inside their yearbooks. "They're going to get the pages reproduced ... I think they're going to be done in a couple days," he said. Initially school officials thought the reprinting process would take a month or more, Pethick said. High school officials used an X-Acto knife to remove the page Monday after they realized it included a picture of a female student sitting at a desk with what may have been a small portion of her underwear showing. The picture is part of a photo collage commemorating the high school's 2005-06 theater productions. Meredith Haydu, a student editor for the yearbook, said the controversial photo will be swapped with another snapshot for the new page. Several students and parents complained, saying officials overreacted and damaged the yearbooks, which cost about $80 each, when they cut out the page. High school Principal Mary Jane Deutsch said she doesn't talk to reporters and referred questions to Pethick and Director of Secondary Education George Chando. "They do all the talking for the whole district," she said. © 2006 The Express-Times. Used with permission.