Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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Right: Editors—Bill Hebbert. Karen Messersmith. Mike Yardley and Bruce Coplen—complete the routine final check of yearbook mats and copy. Below: Yearbook Advisor. Mr. Lyle Fodnes. shows his versatility by taking one of the many yearbook photos. Mr. Fodnes received his B.A. at Midland Lutheran College and his M.S.E. at Chadron State College. Aside from his duties as principal and guidance counselor. Mr. Fodnes teaches Speech 9. 11 and 12. and sponsors journalism, dramatics, the National Honor Society and Quill and Scroll. Below center: Yearbook page layouts are the first step in annual produc- tion. Roger Mazanec works with a new idea taken from a magazine. Below right: Using a proportion-dial Bob Smith crops a picture for the annual while Dennis Zajic and Mike Hudson compose more copy.

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1 Far left: Seniors—Bruce Coplen. Jim Duncan and Mike Yardley—read news items while recording the weekly radio program on the Sony. Left: Bill Smith carefully spaces out a block of copy for the Bobcat news- paper so it fits in his layout. Below left: Karen Prochazka and Vicki Hansen undertake the final step in run- ning off a page of The Feline. Below: Bill Hebbert. Karen Messer- smith and Ralph Price are preparing the Tuesday radio program by proof- reading and editing the stories.

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Transition '70 Is Speech 12 Project Many long hours of re-writing copy, typing copy sheets, draw- ing layouts and cropping pic- tures went into the production of Transition '70. Although there were several moments of failure and exasperation, the students of Speech 12 met their problems head on and spent many hours on their book. It wasn’t un- common to find the yearbook staff at work after school and through the evenings in order to meet a pressing deadline. The staff utilized a new sys- tem of organization this year to achieve high quality and uni- formity. The four editors— Bruce Coplen, Bill Hebbert, Karen Messersmith and Mike Yardley—were in charge of lay- outs, photography, copy and continuity, respectively. The original annual material, how- ever, was the result of individual efforts and cooperation among staff members. The students of Speech 12 attempted to follow the basic theme by using dynamic new designs and ideas. Two of the new layout techniques were uni- form internal margins and hori- zontal line effects. Each step in assembling the book served to help an individ- ual acquire useful techniques such as clarity of expression, uniformity of design and bal- ance and basic principles of organization. Organization not only taught the important as- pects of journalism but also helped to build responsibility, understanding and cooperation.