Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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★ Journalists pose In addition to their regular duty of writing the Weekly Web, the first semester journalism students won numerous honors at the annual Journalism Day contest held at Drake I’niver- sity on November 19. “On the Spot contest winners were Dob Kozeboom, who received a first in the sports division, and Nancy Neff, who won a second place in the straight news. In the feature story division Mary Pierre won a first and Dud Winfrey a third for stories written before the contest. •Journalism class, under the direction of Miss Charlotte Nelson, learns methods of gathering news, making interviews, playing up a feature and compiling material for publication. Proof reading, tin final step before the copy goes to press, is done every Wednesday morning at the Tribum office. Second semester staff carried on a courtesy campaign. A drive was made in which home- room 22.1 was chosen the winner. Almost 147 yards of copy were written this year by the first and second semester journalism classes and published in the Weekly W b which appears on Wednesday in tin Ames Doily Tribune. Twenty-six

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Li eij innerJ oUecirn S tucje ZJech imbues Tor Row: p. Hahn. Barber. C. Kennedy. Kyle. I). Dunlap. Schanche. Yocum, Dahl. Getz. Irvine Middle Row: Stein. S. Anderson. McKeen. Norton. Gerbrach. C. Smith. Holmes, Blaine Griffith. Schmidt, Krickson, Penly Front Row: Culbertson. Burner, Hayenga. Heywood. Mr. I.ett. Knuths, Sherman. Gray. Roberson learned about acting techniques. Near the end of the year the class prepared a one-act play. Beginning Drama members in the Drama club play included Arthur Schanche and Willis Yocum. Drama club. Ames High s answer to the “call of the theater. ’ has as its officers Mary Pierre, president -. George Clark, vice-president; Valerie Stevenson, secretary: and Page Arnold, business manager. Drama members holding the Palm, national honorary dramatic award, are Mary Pierre and Ella Mae Robertson. ther former members who won the Palm include Rosemary Iverson, David Larson. Mary Ann Plagman, Betsy Ross, Adel Throckmorton, and Wayne Spangler. Each re- cipient of this award is entitled to wear the small gold pin of a Greek comedy mask with Alls Palm engraved on it. ★ Palm members Tor Row : Larson, Iverson. Spangler Bottom Row: B. Robertson, Pierre, B. Ross, Plagman Twenty-five

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Tor Row: W.ikeflolti. J. Winfrey. Ersland, Swank. Peters, Yoder. Mezvinsky. Wright. X. Johnson Middle Row: P. Miller. Parsons. E. Pederson. Thomas. Lantz. C. Judge, B. Miller. M. Judge. Gilman Front Row: E. L.. Martin. Mendon, Ott. Schulz. Meldrum. Miss Nelson. II. Knudson. Day. Van Alstine. Butler Cubs' club, Ames High school’s journalism organization, is offered as an extra-curricular activity to sophomores, juniors and seniors who are not taking the regular journalism course offered in the senior year. Through this organi- zation underclassmen become accustomed to journalistic style and have some knowledge of newspaper publishing before actually enrolling in the journalism course offered in the senior year. During the first semester of this year the club worked on projects to help them learn the fundamentals of writing good straight news and feature stories. One of these projects was the collection of newspaper stories and attempting to analyze why these stories were good or bad by using good stories as a comparison. n find- ing a good example of news or feature writing, the student chose another subject and tried to adjust the general plan of the model to his topic. The club held monthly meetings to acquaint members of tin organization with journalistic techniques. In the fall a luncheon was held in the faculty lunch room in place of a regular meeting. After completing this work, the club’s main project was to write and edit the Weekly Web during the first weeks of the second semester before tin new journalism class began publish- ing the weekly newspaper. The crowning achievement for a Cub is win- ning recognition as a reporter for the W b. After ten inches of his material has been printed he is added to the staff as reporter. Several (bibs’ Club members became Web reporters during the second semester by this means. Another project of the journalism class dur- ing the second semester was a high school pres- idential election. Information concerning candi- dates was posted in the library for several weeks preceding the polling. The main purpose of the club is to give stu- dents a glance at journalism before they decide whether or not to take it as an elective course. Miss Charlotte Nelson, journalism instructor, serves as Cubs' club sponsor. Twenty-seven