Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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On.uiu ' .n --iliill Jim Moriarty Biisi)!csi Miiiniiicr Charlie Wiisr Circiilalioii Mdtui; fr Flay McPiilrson Ann Rinnert Martin Knowlton Howell Heelin Jim Moriarty, Business Manager evu6 who wandered in to call up their girls on Friday nights. The Office had a phone, you see, and gloried in the power pertaining thereto. Lights burned late in the basement on Wednesday nights as last copy was written and headlined. They burned later the last days of March when the feminine members of the staff strug- gled over the April Fool edition. The editor, tradition decreed, was always out of town for the issue; he really was this time, representing Southern at a national meeting of college leaders. Throughout the year he had a liberal policy of giving space to anyone who cared to write to the paper. Pacifism, housing conditions, and world predic- tions occasionally filled its columns. Mr. Childers saw to it that wandering typewriters were returned to the fold, and that the paper had a wide scope of action open to it. Another innovation was the paid staff. Formerly the editor, business manager, and managing editor drew a salary, but during ' 39- ' 40 the staff re- ceived a small, but real compensation for their efforts. Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 Downing Street was crowded with aspiring journalists waiting for ' incent Townsend and his class. Many of the stories written were accepted for the News and niches on next year ' s staff secured for the contributors.

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25 26 27 28 29 : L diloi ' ial -jyfaf E. L. Holland Editor Bob Luckie Managing Editor Bill Mizelle Managing Editor Miles Denham Sports Editor Sarah Shepard Social Ed tor Bob Lively Virginia Van der Veer Frank Cash Lester Gingold E. L. Holland, Editor ke J iiiio f The Progressive Newspaper for Bir- mingham-Southern Students appeared the first Friday of school, and every- body had to learn to say Hilltop News instead of Gold and Black. It ' s face was lifted, typographically speaking; in 1 Downing Street, its new home in the library basement, the editor and his cohorts were to hold forth with air raid arias, new movements on the campus, and bull sessions on everything from pohtics to Who Stole Tom ' s Girl. Six pages rolled off the press in contrast to the traditional four. Pages of pictures were compiled before the year was over — pictures of events happening on the campus and made by home-grown photographers, a distinct innovation in the history of the paper. Of course the photographs later found their way to the Hilltop News walls and beamed beatifically down on struggling repor- ters the rest of the year, but they didn ' t seem to mind, and it amused the boys Muiiagni Editor Mizelle

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W. RDBERT MITCHELL (Lailof D. HIS YEAR, as usual, La Revue has sought to be different. The color index is the first ever used in an annual and the summary of college history is also new. Group pictures have been retained in the organization and Greek section, a policy which is definitely on the way in progressive annuals throughout the country. More snapshots of student activities have also been included. La Revue started out the year in an auspicious manner. We were given the old Y Cabinet room as an office and were ornately furnished with table, typewriter, and three folding chairs. Then one day we had the fact thrust upon us that we were being given the air; our office was being turned into a radio control room. So, taking our table and type- writer we moved into the snake corner of the Hilltop News room where we soon acquired enough litter on our desk and pictures on the wall to resemble our fellow publication across the room. Enough people drifted in and looked over our material that we are confident nothing in the annual will be news at all. But it has been an interesting year and a progressive one too, for the move increasing the lower division fee so that everyone gets an annual was initiated by La Revue and passed by the student body. This step will enable the 1941 editor to put out a finer book, as well as reduce the organization rates. This year will see more La Revues printed than in the past several years.