Sean Rossman

USA TODAY

A California high school yearbook staff surprised a blind student by printing the school's print retrospective in braille.

Advocates for the blind said Windsor High School's 2015-16 yearbook may be the first to be printed in braille, reported the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California.

Charlie Sparacio, the yearbook's editor-in-chief, told the Press Democrat he pitched the idea to print the book for senior Maycie Vorreiter after his staff won $500 at a summer yearbook camp in 2015.

The school and the book's publisher split the $4,000 cost to print the yearbook, which the Press Democrat said is a foot tall and split into four volumes. The theme also was printed in braille on all yearbook covers.

The high school's newslettter said, "the staff thought the gesture was well deserved, since Maycie is so well respected on campus."

Sparacio and others kept the surprise under wraps until the end of the year. Vorreiter, who has been blind since birth, told the Press Democrat she was amazed and excited when she got her copy.

“It was one of those really awesome moments that I would want to relive again," Vorreiter told the Press Democrat. "My hope is that in the future, if there are other visually impaired students that go through high school, they get a yearbook for their senior year, too.”

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