Mabelle Scott Rancho School - Valencia Yearbook (Azusa, CA)

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Valencia Staff VALENCIA Are we, the students of this school, so many stuffed owls on a taxidermist's laboratory shelf? The staff of this yearbook resolved that the monotony of stereotype was to be thrown in the ash can tdid they succeed???l and that the 1939 VALENCIA would be different C?l. No more sugary and unnatural copy., conventional layouts or flattering pictures. Definitely not, they decided to be thoroughly unconventional. The staff was organized around an Architect's Braintrustu with Ieanne loyce, the editor-in-chief, driven stark raving mad by uninterested editors. Marilyn Bailey as assistant editor directed activities whenever possible. Gay Thwaite handled the entire senior section with more than average ability. Iunior Editor Florence Clausen penned the first epistle to go to the higher-ups, and for her promptness she was rewarded with several others to write. Shirley Rogers added a none-too-inspiring ditty to the sophomore page, while Virginia Hughes possessed uncanny inability to complete the freshman article. Humor editor, lacquie King, found much enjoyment in her task of listen- ing to the wireless for new C?l jokes. Kathryn Manley, gagster deluxe, was art editor when not contributing supposedly sparkling humor to liven up the staff congregations. Virginia Frinell, her assistant, did all the tedious and usually unappreciated art connected with this yearbook. Peggie Gray, together with Connie Ereydig and Ann Abernathy, expended her energies in the feature di- vision, but was sometimes in the diminutive editor's curly locks. Sports was a two-man, or rather a two-woman, job. Martha Enos, who worked herself into a lather every time she wrote an article, handed in some fine copy, the other, Iayne editor's-stooge Cferrish, not only turned in lively accounts of sports events but also pinch-hit on all sorts of assignments. leanne Clark, business manager, and Marybelle Scott, assistant, put the VALENCIA over with a supercolossal advertising scheme.

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i Scott-O-Gram Staff SCOTT - CD - GRAM When the subscribers to the Scott-O-Gram peruse the finished example of journalistic achievement, they little realize what labor has gone into its pro- duction. One of the feature editors gives us the following peek behind the scenes: For the first two weeks before the paper is due, we go to meetings every Monday and Thursday nights. The editor calls for the articles and everyone starts making up alibis for not having hers, but the sports editor is an exception and always gets her stuff in on time. The editor tears her hair and shrieks, 'we'll never get to press on time-we don't have enough stuff to fill twelve pages.' Throughout the editor's cuibursts, the assistant editor sits and looks dis- interested: the business manager writes dreamily in her diary, the sports editor sits patiently putting up her hair in curlersp the social editor manicures her nails: the feature and art editors scribble on articles, and read books and letters on the side: and the lowly reporters Cwhen they manage to get to the meetingsl sit nodding wisely at opportune moments. For the next two weeks, and for two days before the paper comes out, meetings are called in every spare moment. The editor and assistant franti- cally cut, revise, and switch articlesy the assistant and the business manager condescend to do a little typingy the art editors cut a few stencilsg the produc- tion department decides to type a few more stencils, and the other editors are hailed at odd moments, and are sent off to cover last minute news. So Sunday arrives and from that morning until five minutes before the paper is sold, the typing room is a mess! With a radio to keep them going, a few suckers for work iusually the editor, assistant editor and art editorl start rolling the stencils off. The production staff works ferociously cutting the re- maining stencils. The skeleton staff, Asmeared with printer's ink, announces that the paper will be sold at eight o'clock. After dinner the whole staff marches up to the typing room and starts putting pages together. At five minutes of eight the weary members throw the finished paper at the business manager and wobble to their little homes to collapse-and so you get your paper on time!