East High School - Trojan Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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fl. SEAM! Journalistic training before becoming a mem- ber of the paper staff is one semester of jour- nalism class in which all phases of newspaper writing are covered. Outstanding writing from this group is often included in the paper. There goes the bell ending another session of school. Of course, the editors, advisor, re- porters and business staff often work much beyond that 3:40 dismissal to get their copy ready for their readers. Always, though, when theyive done a good job thereis that feeling of satisfaction to compensate for the hard work. A deadline has once again been met and next Friday the paper will come out to do its job of reporting school news, activities and opinions to students at East. Pushing pens furiously to meet deadlines are re- porters. First row: J. Bender, M. Jurging. Second row: P. Hagemann. W. Crow. S. Daris. Third row: 1. Mundt, N. Hostetler, D. Harden, B. Gould, H. Diers, V. DeLancey. Ad soliciiers look over accounts for the weel-:. First row: W. Kirchmann, D. Wiilson. Second row: J. Collord, M. Horner, D. Bramble, B. Lathrop. The circulation staff members counting out papers are S. Wdpplinger, N. Burk. S. Higdon, M. Bolton. An honorary division of the publications department is the National Chapter of Quill and Scroll. The main activity of the group is the publishing of our annual W7ooden Horse, which is a collection of creative writ- ing gathered from material handed in during English classes. This yearis staff is headed by ,Io Bisone while Clara Hack serves as cir- culation and business manager. Quill and Scroll members at the opening: of the year included Clara Hack, Gerry Han- son, Ralph Schauer and Jo Bisone. Meeting qualifications for membership during the first semester were .lane McCoy, .lean Rath, ,lack Bender, Letty Miller, Urvola Brooks, ,lim Eickelberg and Shirlee Gormly. f ET: 'Wu' t M '

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Wfhile weire catching 'cover-the-shoulder glimpses of activities at East, we can't afford to miss looking in on staff period some Tues- day afternoon before the paper comes out. Niidst the hubbub of meeting last minute changes in time for the 5:00 o'clock deadline, we sec .lane McCoy, editor-in-chief, confer- ring with Miss Marguerite Blough, staff ad- visor. .lo Bisone and Clara Hack, co-news editors, are busily reading copy to check on thorough news coverage while Orvola Brooks, feature editor, does some hurried headline writing to cap the amusing features for the week's edition. Wzlyne Crow, sports editor, is finishing a basketball starting lineup just released by the coach. Standing by him is Shirlee Gormly, exchange editor, pointing out interesting sports coverage in an exchange paper. The many staE reporters are scattered around the room energetically chewing pen- cils and feverishly writing copy on social activities, school news, clever feature stories, opinion polls, interviews and sports news. we? Olfelf' 0 :Ye B editors industriously working on page layouts are O. Brooks, feature editor: .lane McCoy, editor-in-chief, and I0 Bisone and C. Hack, co-news editors. Checking assignments and kibitzing G. Han- son at the typewriter are J. Rolinger, T. Myers, P. Snowden, L. Miller, S. Gormly, I. Eickelberg. Uver in the corner are columnists Gerry Hanson and ,lim Eickelberg exchanging witty remarks while Gerry types her colunm with the old faithful uhunt-and-peck system. Back by the radiators we see advertising manager David Brumble counting inches while his solicitors, .lean Collcrd, Betty Lath- rop, Dixie Wfilson, Muriel Bolton, Colleen Power, Nancy Burk, Shirlee Davis, Virginia Deluancey, Shirlee Wfipplinger and Dave Ar- buckle, breathlessly rush in froni soliciting ads from businesses downtown. Over by the business desk we see business manager Wanda Kirchman and her assistant, Marilyn Horner, balancing assets and liabilities. Some of the reporters, finally finishing their assignments, stand by the book shelf perusing the eight journalistic books recently awarded the Orange and Black fo1' first place coverage in observance of library-newspaper co-operation during Book week. Included are biographies of famous journalists and two journalism text books of primary interest to the journalism classes. 2 8 ,

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Next ln Lead The junior class as the middle men of the school roster have the responsibility of financ- ing, planning and putting on the Junior-Senior prom with the seniors, Board of Education and faculty as guests. Most of the responsi- bility of this job falls on the shoulders of the junior officers and their council. The officers, Harold Reasby, president, Jim Donnell, vice- presidentg Shirley Bennett, secretary, and Nola Dale, treasurer, were nominated and elected by the junior class in September. The council was composed of representatives and their alternates, elected by each homeroom. erly Gesell worth, Fannie Baskerville lind, Charles Gremmels Bachtell, Bill Murray Miss Lenicek's 11A Homeroom Georgia Cross, Marjorie Goings Helen Sulentic Christian, Mack Cook Balabon Mr. Raifenspergeris 11A Homeroom First row: Shirley Wipplinger Joyce Fink, ,Iaci Dalrymple, Bez, Second row: Shirley Campbell Irene Steffen, Marvilyn Summy loan Petersen, Alma Hollings Third row: Elwin Colson, Larry Hunt, Harold Garland, Martin Fricke, Tom Mason, Dale Fager Fourth row: Max Clark, Dale Smith Eugene Maricle, Paul Hagemann Al Sorensen, Dave Brumble, Roger First row: Frances White, Jackie Heald, Eilene Lubert, Donna Hll ton, Joyce Adams, Arden Smith Second row: Charlotte Reig, Anna Burr, Delores Beard, Colleen Smith Shirley Bennett, Colleen Power Third row: Leslie Van Wey, Robert Jensen, Wayne Crow, James Mc w Fourth row: lay Dietz, Edwin Lol son, Tom Myers, Bob Gruuer, Cur tis McKee, Harold Reasby, Nick