Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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THE 1942 When the General Staff met in May over a year ago to plan the strategy of the 25th anniversary edition of the Blackhawk, they de- cided to go all-out for victory and write themselves red-white-and blue with a military theme. Production plans began imme- diately as Chief-of-Staff Erling liai - son appointed Nancy Schmidt head of layouts and blueprints and named Ralph Bender as her orderly. An enthusiastic recruiting cam- paign was carried on until hundreds of students had volunteered to en- joy the Blackhawk and registered at their home room stations — no draft necessary here! Like the government, the staff must please everyone, and so the Public Relations bureau dispatched its representatives to find out exact- ly what was wanted by students, faculty, alumni, parents, and public! With typewriters for machine guns, books for bombs and paper for planes, we roared into action on • in-chief. Abort: Buiiness Staff — left: Dolore» Ohland. as»i»t- ant hu»ine» manaKtr; Walter Navin. baulntu manager. WATCHDOGS Of LIBERTY T a . I-eft: Art Staff: Mi»» Doenneeke. Nancy Schmidt. Bettie Westphal, and Ralph Bender. ★ ★ ★ (Z (JU4

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FOURTH ESTATE Tep: Reporter getting align- ment from the editor on aa .g.i- ment day. Ad taff planning a layout. Left to right: Marvin l.indberg, Jean- ette Stott . Vey Christentrn, Joan L'ken, with Norm Peter looking on. A group of axistant» rritiiing The Blaekhawk” while Dirk Pear on type out the ugge tions. Left: Kula Shcffler. Bettie YVeitphal. Dirk Peanon. Right: Dirk Pro»e. Erne- stine Reese, Marilyn Prorhnow. Carol Casey. September 5, 1941—Fifty conscripted journalists of the 29th regiment (all from room 29) were called to attention by Chief of Staff, Jean Krabbenhoeft. Orders were issued for the first Blaekhawk of the semester. October 14, 1941—Journalists from ten schools in Iowa and Illinois were guests in the barracks of Davenport high school for a Journalism conference. Summons were also sent to and answered by professors from the University of Iowa, Northwestern university, and the University of Wisconsin. Sometime in fall—The Blaekhawk passed inspection with flying colors and went over the top to capture the flag of honor. With pride, the 29th regiment remembers that it won the Quill and Scroll International Honor award given to papers of superior achievement. And with inflated chests it speaks of that second place in the Columbia Scholastic Press association after competing with 1600 papers. December 7, 1941 — Early Sunday morning Japanese planes made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Journalists everywhere began to realize the worldwide significance of the “fourth estate.” January 31, 1942—The mid-year Quill and Scroll banquet was held at the Outing club. The details are a military secret, but pledges were informally reviewed before joining the ranks of full-fledged members. May 29, 1942—The last issue of the Blaekhawk was re- leased and the 29th regiment was given its leave of absence. Advber c. W. Ilarh. Harriet Pooner. and Kenneth Stephen admiring the Quilt and Scroll International Honor Award won for third uccc» ive year. Below: Typical acene in room 2) on deadline night.

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ANNUAL all fronts. The only bottle-neck in the entire program was that the entire staff claimed they belonged in the Intelligence department. There’s no defensive strategy in this book. The staff was continually on the offensive, getting the jump on the Old Father Time for those precious minutes, as vital in journalism as in defense fac- tories — always scouting for news, its Secret Service working silently for scoops — ever a step ahead and on the alert! Above: Photographer Bob Oakes, Assistant Kditor Karl Larson, and Adviser Clarence W. Haeh planning pictures. You’ll notice the element of surprise attack in the candid shots. Our Press Corps crawled through desk and waste- paper entanglements, dangled from elec- tric lights and got the evidence! The Office of Censorship had only a mild workout as Administrator C. W. Hach applied the red pencil occasionally so that no copy disastrous to our educa- tional effort would be printed. And now after a year of work, marred by no more sabotage than a broken type- writer, the campaign is finished and our objective achieved. This is the zero hour and here is your 1912 Blackhawk in full dress, standing at attention, and saluting you! Above: Major Kditor»—left to right: Norman Peters, picture editor; Jim Dumin. sports editor; Jean Ann Zoeckler, class editor; Marian Wues- tenfeld. activity editor; Beverly Young, dub editor. Staff — left to right — back row: Shirley l.iddkard. Marijane Purvis. Genevieve Bruns. front row: Louise llilfman. Barb Lee. Mary Nagel. Kathleen Meyer, and Dorothy Tim- mons.