McClellan High School - Lion Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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,MMVI Looking over the next weeks agenda are staff members Mrs. Roberts, Tracey Summar, and Ronnie Standridge. Melanie Chandler and Kim Lanier finish typ- ing up the copy for the next deadline. QL fl3,e Paper staff members, Debbie Darracott, Liota Odom, and Sean Durham, call a business to see about Mike House and Joey Brannigan look at old buying an ad in the next edition of the Lion-Up, 60fLion-Up copies of the Lion-Up to get some ideas. ...Quad

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But We Finally Got It Done! Please Read A Few 0f Our Experiences In Trying To Get It done. What would you do if . . . it was two days before deadline and six rolls of film turned green. . . . you had a date at 7:30 and you,re still working on the yearbook at 7:15. . . . you had written your copy fifteen times and the adviser says, Try again! all the mug shots arrived on time, but none of the names were leg- ible. you had an English paper, a chemistry test, a debate case, a choir festival and a yearbook deadline all on the same day. . . . you had mono and still had ten pages of ads to sell. . . . you forgot to tell your parents you're staying late at school and they send out an A.P.B. on you. Sometimes we weren't sure what we did, but we finally got it done. Some- times it took tears, hurt feelings, harsh words, late hours, and countless cries of, I want to quit! But we finally got it done in five deadlines beginning in Oc- tober and ending at the first of Febru- ary - five months and a few weeks to capture a year of school activities. But we finally got it done so we can start again on the twentieth volume of the award winning The Lion. Looking at old annuals for some new ideas are Shelley Henson, Shawn Melanie Chandler, Kathy Venable, and Lisa Burgess look for negatives Thompson, and Donna Davis. to print for the Activities section. Activ1t1esf59

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Working hard on writing some copy for the next edition of the Lion-Up is Bobbie Brooks. Sean Galloway and Mike Nichols interview Reginald Dillard for the sports column. A Tradition Of Excellence Striving To Express The Voice Of The Students Is One Aspect Of The Lion-Up. Everyone thinks a newspaper is full of just facts and information, not the McClellan Lion-Up ! The newspaper has been striving to keep the voice of the students as the most important aspect in their writing. The most popular column that has been used for this purpose is Sound Off? This column presents such controver- sial questions as Are you in favor of merit pay? Another big attraction is the column gives special recognition to elected offi- cers and information about the school clubs. It also kept everyone up to date on what was happening around school. Not only did they focus on school events, they also provided us with col- umns on what was happening outside of school. Articles such as the movie re- views, the Arkansas State Fair, and edi- torials done on current issues did this. These techniques used by the paper staff were obtained at the journalism camp held at Ouachita Baptist Univer- sity, attending several journalism con- ventions, and from the experienced sen- ior members on the staff. They have a constant award winning paper every year. This style of idealistic journalism is what keeps the Lion-Up a tradition of excellence. Lion Upf61