Chisholm High School - Ranger Yearbook (Chisholm, MN)

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Top picture Back row: Lahti, Kotchevar, Prebil, Regis, Baldrica, Palcich, Hathaway, Borgeson, Johnson, Eddy, Borken. First row: Vuicich, Giffei, Leino, Humphreys, Dinger, Alto, Koscak. Bottom picture Top row: Eddy, Hathaway, Cawley, McDougall, Baldrica, Feller. Second row: Vuicich, Ruosch, Johnson, Prebil, Mueller, Kotchevar. First row. Kapa, Gerzin, Alto, Giffei, Leino, Koscak, Kangas. OUR QUILL AND SCROLL CHAPTER AND RANGER STAFF Now I'll introduce you to the publishers of this year's book, the RANGER staff. Although only nine- teen in number, they published three literary issues of the RANGER, ten of the BLUE STREAK, our school paper, and a forty-eight page annual. Betha Giffei was our annual editor this year. Under her guidance, writers, artists, and photographers worked hard to bring our book to a high level. Mavis Alto edited our literary issue of the RANGER. These featured the best essays and poems written by the stud ents in school. The BLUE STREAK rose to a new level this year, with Esther Leino as editor. Homecoming at school was featured with a big seventeen-page BLUE STREAK. Miss Margaret Darling, whom you can see in the picture of the mimeograph room on the opposite page, is adviser of all publications. Above, you see our Quill and Scroll society consisting of twenty-one members chosen for their literary and scholastic abilities. It is really an honor for budding journalists to be admitted to this group- On March 31, a formal initiation was held in the high school gym.

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, - Q1 it Top Picture Standing: Albert Samsa, John Pahule, James Bryan, Lloyd Johnson, John Cawley, William Bradley, Don Wilson. Sitting: Alvar Humppi, Robert Powers, Leontina Castagneri, Ellamae Anderson. Bottom Picture Standing: Ralph B drica, Lauretta Eddy, Alan Humphreys, Wayne Nisula, William Bradley. Sitting: Swen Saar, Betha Giffei. Iohn Cawley, Leontina Castagneri, Esther Leino. OUR PLAYS- BELLE LAMAR AND THE NUT F ARM Every year we have two plays here at Chisholm High. For the all-school play on December 5, Miss Virginia McNicholas, our director, chose Belle Lamar , a Civil War drama. Ellamae Anderson and John Cawley had the star roles of Isabelle Lamar and Philip Bligh. It was a story of a Southern belle married to a. Northern army of- ficer. The plot involved spies, soldiers, and faithful servants. Leontina Castagneri and Robert Mueller played to perfection the roles of Irish Honor McQuade and black Uncle Dan. Lloyd Johnson as Corporal Renny O'Shea humorously marshalled soldiers Albert Samsa, Alvar Hum ppi, John Pahule, Robert Powers and -James Bryan. William Bradley, William Verant, Donald Kaliin, Richard Johnson, Don Wilson, and Kenneth McDougall were Un- ion officers. I know you would have enjoyed The Nut Farm , the senior class play presented on May 22. The story was that of the Barton family of Newark who came to Hollywood, the city of glamor. The daughter became movie- struck: and Willie, the black sheep, turned out to be the hero by directing her drama into a farce. John Cawley as Willie, Alan Humphreys as the author, Mr. Biddeford, and Swen Saari as Farmer Sliscomb portrayed their hu- morous roles excellently. Other members of the cast were Esther Leino, Leontina Castagneri, Betha Giffei, Laur- etta Eddy, William Bradley, Ralph Baldrica, and Wayne Nisula.

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THIS IS WHAT THEY DO The journalism staff of nineteen faithful members hears all, sees all, and prints all of importance in school news. Down in the RANGER office, wits, pencils, and type- writers are in constant use grinding out as- signments. Perhaps you'd like to know just how a BLUE STREAK or RANGER is made. First of all, the editors post the assignment sheets. After the articles have been written, cor- rected, and oked , they are typed. The BLUE STREAK is then stenciled and mime- ographed, as you can see in the picture be- low. The papers are assembled and then delivered as in the picture at the lower right. The typed material for the magazine or annual is sent to the printers. At the right, the boys in the shop are reviewing funda- mentals before starting in on a year of hard work. Last of all, but most important, a public- ation must have subscribers. The staff solves that problem by subscription drives. Programs are presented, posters are drawn, notices are written, and the reporters track down all prospects. The staff ,also gives a Christmas Dance. Above, Lauretta Eddy presents RANGER subscriptions to Sylvia Saari and Dorothy Maki, polka winners. To the average person, a newspaper means reporters, editors, and deadlines. Those are just a. few of the other processes that go on behind the scenes.