Boise High School - Courier Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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Ellis Layne Maralee Smead X Betty Lou Mellor Betty Lou Wells Jim Cilmo Editor Editor Business Manager Business Ma :Ter Advertising Man g The High and High Lighfythe i affs 'V High ,fijhtf f gi' OUT OF the noise, confusion, and general helter-skelter that is connected with the staff room comes a four-page paper known to the students of B.l-l.S. as the H1-ligh Lights. The first semester of the 1941-42 school year found Ellis Layne editor and publisher. Managing editor was Maralee Smead, business manager, Betty Lou Mellor, and advertising manager, lim Gilmore. Southwestern Idaho journalists attended a press conference sponsored by Boise lunior College, Cctober 31. Thirteen persons represented Boise. Discussion groups were held on advertising, general news, and the school annual. During the first semester a new feature was added to the paper. Appearing monthly was the Scholastic Roto, a rotogravure section containing pictures of the happenings in high schools of the United States. Ellis Layne and Maralee Smead were co-chairmen of the annual High Lights Alumni dance held after school in the old gymnasium on December 19. Also on that day a special twelve-page edition of the l-ligh Lights was published. The end of the semester was celebrated by the annual staff banquet, at which time the second semester staff was named. February 6 was the date of the first of thirteen papers to be published the second semester under the editorship of Maralee Smead. Managing editor was Ruth Bates, business manager, Betty Lou Wells, and advertising manager, Millard Palmer. During April the l-ligh Lights staff was host to the members of the Nampa HGroWl and the Cald- well 'Canyon Cougar at a press conference. 18

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lt's disaster, Complete disaster. l'm qomq lo l e a career gurl who dam:es. lFr lllimk our ::ori1'tvr.iml lf 1 ide lliimg t ir limi f-l' Oh, you lxoys are lust slaying mel Innocence is no 'usel Now, l've qu! lv arrest Ilie wli. lf- kit fm' lm! ml dl you fvet .Qnce fare ll JUST like a womanfno logic, gloomily decides Orval Porritt. UMe? Ch, l get by, l get by. l wouldn't want to brag, but there just seems to be something about me the tems tall tor, airily announces Stanley Burns. Ever Since Eve is the ideal Senior Class play. lt's as modern as May 29, l942, as true to lite as Boise l-ligh School, as gay as the teen age, and as old as Mother Eve. There is Mr. and Mrs. Clover, Carl Burke and loyce Howard, who look with amused amazement at their own seventeen-year-old ottspring. lohnny Clover, Crval Porritt, puts out the school paper with the help ot Spud, Stanley Burns. Everything proceeds splendidly until Susan, Patty Ann Cxley, becomes girls' editor. Spud's little sister, Mary Louise lrlarter, is always under toot. Qt course, every boy in school, including the handsome but tritle dumb tootball hero, Bates Murphy, completely loses his head when Lucybelle, Phyllis Field, enrolls and begins tluttering her eyelids. There is the attractive young principal, Frank Church, and the pretty journalism teacher, lunella Sanford, Gardner Bultinch has his troubles as the police otticer. 17

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Under direction of Wilbur Leonard the High Lights is printed -iqiyh ,High ts THE HlGH LIGHTS of the air! Then follows fifteen minutes of the latest school news, interesting chit-chat, and musical numbers. This radio program, presented by students of Boise High School, has gone on the air over KIDO every Friday since school began. Our school and local radio station were among the pioneers in this activity. Now, many high schools throughout the United States have their own radio programs. The program is affiliated with the school newspaper. t Under the direction of Betty Lou Wells, the program was presented during the first semester with Stanley Burns, lerry Riddle, Gordon Thornburg, Bates Murphy, and Romaine Galey as the announcers. Second semester Romaine Galey was named radio editor. Announcers were Wade Fleetwood, Gordon Thornburg, Bates Murphy, Carl Burke, Terry Riddle, Betty Lou Wells, and Ellis Layne. Script writers were added to the radio staff, too. lunella Sanford and l im Gilmore held the positions. Behind The High Lights are the high school printers. Many an excellent linotypist can point with pride to his initial training in Boise High School under the veteran instruction of Luther Straight and W. G. Lemon. Mr. Lemon left at the end of the first semester to become the principal of a trade school in Laramie, Wyoming. His work was taken over by Wilbur Leonard, a graduate of Boise High. The print shop has its own definite personality. There is always the peculiar smell of printer's ink, the rattling sound of the various machines, the final rush on Friday, and boys busily getting out assignments which can't be turned in a week late. 19 Millard Palmer Ruth Bates Romaine Galey Albert Lcckett Luther Stra glut Ad ertising Manager Managing Editor Radio Editor Adviser Printing Instr i