Thomas Jefferson High School - Monticello Yearbook (Council Bluffs, IA)

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i si x l xx Szgfml Rewew With a staff desiring to make the Signal a better paper than ever before, and the experience of the journalism instructor, Miss Hazel Miller the school paper has advanced to still higher levels during the past two semesters. A single proof of this fact was shown by the rating given the Signal in the Columbia Xi i , , S , . A A A A ssn ne ae ix fx A 1' 0 1: . . ji ' 5 1 s '3 19 5 Scholastic Press association contest. When the paper was first entered with other con- testants it was placed in the fourth class. The next year it received a rating in group I three. This year, in competition with about one hundred school papers in the same 1,1 division, the Signal went up another notch, to group two. l H The staff also entered the paper in the contest sponsored by the Iowa High School Press association, at Grinnell, last fall. I-Iere the Signal received honorable mention for 1,41 front page make-up. Several members of the staff attended the convention held at the ' same time, entering in some of the contests. As the result Clinton Mayer, at that time advertising manager for the paper, brought home the silver cup for first place in the 12' news editing contest. WJ' Another contest in which the paper was entered was sponsored by the Interscholastic 1 ll association, but this was merely a critical event intended to aid the staff. 11 Every staff of editors for the Signal has prepared at least one special issue for some I A purpose or celebration. The first staff this year prepared two eight-page issues. The 12.1 first was a teachers' edition which came out the morning of the first day of Southwestern V1 Iowa Teachers' Convention. It contained outlines of the speeches to be given and other Vi material of special interest to the teachers. The other was the annual Thanksgiving ll edition. The four center pages, this year, were printed in orange and carried cuts of all of Thomas efferson's football teams and the line-up for each year. W J l i With the beginning of the second semester a change was made in the headline I schedule which definitely improved the appearance of the paper. A larger type was used, which, although shortening the units of the headline, made the pages of the paper ap- , I pear more newsy and interesting. 1 I In March the editing staff wrote headlines for a Quill and Scroll contest. Those 11,1 , written by Glenn Flynn and Clinton Mayer were submitted to the final judges. At the I same time journalism I and II classes wrote news and feature stories, the best to be 1 . submitted. In another division of the contest a series of humor columns were submitted, 1 'I while several others handed in editorials and sports stories which had been printed in the 1 ' Signal. . 1 ' - . , . 2 . 1 n P W In order that the department of school activities be a success, things must follow a f-A set schedule On Monday morning each editor posts a set of assignments for which he I 1 expects the reporter to cover and turn in Editorials are written by the editors on Tuesday. 12 By Thursday night all copy for pages two and three must be complete. This means that it 'F has been typed, copyread received a headline, been passed by the editor-in-chief and Miss l Miller, and the dummy sheet all made out. On Friday evening everything on page one and four must be finished in the same manner. Then the copy is sent to the printer. 141 11, On Saturday the proofreader must go uptown to read proof. All the type must be 1 li ready and proofread by Monday morning. This leaves Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- 141 1 ' day for the boys in the print shop to set up the headlines and get the type in order so the W1 0 paper will be off the press by Wednesday, after school. Wednesday evening, members IVA A of the journalism I class must fold the Signals so that everything is ready for the sub- 1 ll pe U scription manager to hand the students the Signals on Thursday morning. f1 4 I L, , 55 ,,.- p Rx A A A ' M Ofbfs'-Q5GaS.1b - xx ' -A-W 11: -wi-gi - 3- N inety-six in 1

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i .. i 1 I Rc M A w x Jx lx lxax aaxixfxaxxnxzx First row: Reason, Culton, Speer, Bachman, Mr. Gernetzky, Campbell, Caskey, Cassel, Johnson, Flynn. Second row: Miller, Donlan, Olsen, Sulhoff, Juul, Holmes, Calame, Adams, O'Hara, Clark, Erbes. Third row: Katzenstein, King, Urzgal, Johnson, Ellis, Rockwell, Noyes, Gilmore, Anderson, Wilson, Kelson. Back row: Flynn, Aufiart, Bolton, Foutch, Adams. Signal Mechanical Staff It is the work of the Signal mechanical staff to print the copy sent them from the editing department, on schedule time. During the first semester the printing of the paper was under the supervision of Ted X9 QQEEQQ i X S. SZ? l Miller and Glenn Flynn. The second semester work was done in divisions with a group Nl of printers for each division. I G. Kelson, C. Foutch, O'Hara, W. Johnson, H. Speer, and R. Calame were the 4 'l group whose work it was to set up headline type. Al H. Clark, M. Katzenstein, C. Wilson, D. Bolton, R. Field, H. Adams, Bardsley, W J. Flynn, H. Campbell, H. Caskey, and H. Cassel were in charge of all the advertising gl copy. f 'I The building up of the forms was in the hands of the following students: F. Culton, lm E. Ellis, T. Urzgal, C. Noyes, E. Olsen, W. Bachman, W. Reed, D. Adams, W. King, V4 W. Gilmore, H. Erbes, R. Rockwell, N. Juul, W. Johnson, O. Reason, E. Auiiart, and 'l B. Holmes. ln, When the forms reached the cylinder press the work was carried on by Ed Olson, lm Elwin Auffart, Nels -Iuul, and Noel King. M' The Signal has the advanced students to thank for the linoleum block work which appeared on the pages from time to time. Some of them were the Christmas scene, an 1 ll Abraham Lincoln silhouette, a ship design, and a model of the Senior ship of state. The ff, last was a four-color job, printed in advance of the regular issue of the Signal, by Glenn lf Flynn and Noel King. 1 'l X 012535929 ' -rx can-...-Z AIAIA- Ninety-eight