<div><p>Unless you're a student or staff, chances are you won't be featured in a school's yearbook. But, this year a high school in Falmouth, Virginia has made an exception for a very special member of their community. </p><p>Last week, students at Stafford High School, including 18-year-old Diana Bloom, were met with surprise after receiving their yearbooks. </p><p>While flipping through pages of memory, they caught a photo of a classmate's service dog, Alpha, among the rest of the students. </p><p>"Seeing a picture of a dog caught my eye pretty quickly," Bloom told <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/kassycho/a-high-school-included-this-teens-service-dog-in-the?utm_term=.nw9Bx45ee#.bxpRbJY55">BuzzFeed</a>. "I thought it was so cute, and I knew that some of my underclassmen friends hadn't seen it yet because they didn't have their yearbooks so I took a picture and tweeted it."</p><div><amp-twitter height="472" width="375" layout="responsive" data-tweetid="865192793261649920"></amp-twitter></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>The story gets even better! </p><p>See, Alpha is a 4-year-old service dog who goes to school to with his human, Andrew "A.J." Schalk, who has Type 1 diabetes. Alpha is tasked with letting A.J know when his blood sugar is getting too high or low.</p><p>Alpha uses his "amazing" sense of smell to alert the 16-year-old junior about his blood sugar levels before anything goes wrong. </p><p>"He has saved my life multiple times already, by waking me up in the middle of the night to extremely low blood sugars, which are very dangerous," said A.J.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925feed2000004700cb2833.jpeg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925feed2000004700cb2833_GH_content_550px.jpeg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925feed2000004700cb2833_GH_content_650px.jpeg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>Over the school year, Alpha became a hit among A.J's peers and the staff. He was even given his own student ID. </p><p>"He has been a great companion and added a lot of happiness to my school's environment," A.J gushed, "It brightens people's days seeing him in the halls or in my class and I love being able to have that effect on people,"</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925ff042000004700cb2834-1.jpeg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925ff042000004700cb2834-1_GH_content_550px.jpeg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/5925ff042000004700cb2834-1_GH_content_650px.jpeg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Since Alpha has been a very good boy, A.J wanted to reward him in a special way. He got in touch with the yearbook team so they could help him shine the spotlight on his dedicated chocolate lab. </p><p>"I contacted a friend of mine who is in yearbook, and we brought it up to the teachers and they were 100 percent supportive," A.J. said.</p><p>The rest was history! Diana's tweet about Alpha's yearbook appearance has since received over 8,600 likes and 3,200 retweets. </p><p>"I thought it was super cute that they put Alpha in the yearbook," Bloom told <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/service-dog-year-book-photo_us_5925ea9be4b061d8f81eddb2">HuffPost</a>. "He does such a good job and he really deserved it!"</p><p>We totally agree, Diana! </p><p><strong>Share Alpha's story with a friend to put a smile on their face. </strong></p></div>