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

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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!

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MUSIC As the eldest brother of the great Steinway family, l have been chosen to relate our experiences with the girls of the Rancho. My brother, who lives in the auditorium, has been the honored guest at five recitals which Mrs. Mary Boyle has supervised. Most of the girls practice their daily lessons on me. Their awkward fingers at first linger on my keys, afraid and unsure of whether this note or that note will be correct. My keys gradually begin to feel an improvement, which brings a tingling feeling to me and makes me want to respond to their touch. As the end of the year comes around, my strings begin to vibrate with now skilled fingers, and I recognize many beautiful melodies. With this new vim and desire to play, my pupils leave me for the summer to bring melody and rhythm from the responsive strings of my relatives in other places. As fall arrives with the freshness of a new school term, my cousin, Mr, Accordion, appears to make his home at the Rancho. Our little squeeze box is a novelty, and it is a pleasure to watch him perform. Soon our squeeze box cousin is not a novelty, but a needed and accustomed friend: and the girls who use him as a medium of expression, find that he is a willing compan- ion to them wherever they go. DRAMA The two dramatics classes displayed a great deal of real talent as the girls put into action the printed words in the scripts that fluttered around the campus during the first few rehearsals. The Warrior's Husband was a play in which the warriors were women and the men stayed at home curling their beards. Seven to One concerned a girls' sorority house and a glee club leader from Princeton-who was it that said, Drama is conflict? Smokescreens was another good play about a young girl whose mother and aunt had conflicting ideas concerning her upbringing. Our Christmas play was very appropriately called Santa and Son, in which Santa's son tried to modernize his old-fashioned father: but the rest of the world would not have it! The Falcon and the Lady was presented one evening after a formal din- ner. lt was a romantic drama in one act. The junior high dramatics class also gave some very interesting plays. The Fatal Quest was one of these. A dashing young prince sought the hand of a beautiful princess, but in true melodramatic style, the characters all met a tragic end as the curtain fell. Hlnformation Please was a play in which we saw only the silhouettes of the actresses behind a screen. The effect was excellent. ln assembly one Wednesday morning we were surprised with Youths Highway, which concerned a promising young artist who came to be one of the Duke's apprentices. He turned out to be the genius, Michelangelo.