Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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77w mm 0;. BUCKING ITS CONTINUED LIMITATION TO A MIGHTY TWO PAGES, the Student Life this year strove valiantly for vitality. With Skip Husing as editor both semesters, the paper was outstanding for its front page makeup, its amazingly in- genious typographical errors, and its imaginative headlines. Associate Editor Smith contributed alliteration and assonance to the heads while the second semester, under Polly Ruprecht's association, witnessed a further swing toward rhymed couplets. Ted Beebe's Another Man's Poison was the sole survivor of several spasmodic attempts at feature columns and provided humor in the best Max Shulman tradition. Vitriolic letters to the editor and the reestablished profile series on campus greats helped to maintain the interest. Skip's editorials were consistently good, with their subjects ranging from the first snow on Baldy to the Artist Course. In February a special four-paqe edition, edited by Ruprecht and dedicated to Pomona's servicemen, was sent overseas. There were no great crusades, no perfect papers, but the news was covered completely and the desired spark was achieved. Circulation Manager Edme Renouf and Ex- change Editor Phil Logan ttop lefD dedicated their time and fingernails to spreading Husing's gos- pel; A1 Hastings tmiddle lefti was chief in the bus- iness management for first semester publications; Ted Beebe was the an- other man dreaming up semi-weekly poisons, and ertswhile women's editor Ruprecht replaced the now strictly-G.I. Smith as associate. R. C. H. Smith acted as first semester's associate editor and achieved undying fame as the headline king.

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SENIOR NAN WHITE, artist, actress, and writer, was this year's Chairman of Publications. She represented pub- lications on the Executive Council, was responsible for editorial policies, and generally saw to it that the publica- tions worked in unified effort. Eugenia Carter, editor of the Direc- tory, had the important task of sort- Twice each semester, Editor Lutes ttop right on cabinett and staff went ing names, addresses, and phone mildly mad, contributing to Pomona's store of humor, the Saqehen. numbers.

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'lte CampuA IN THE TRADITION of all big-city editors, Skip Husing shouted orders to her lowly subordinates, composed provocative editorials, and appro- priated ecclesiastical terminology in vain. Organizer, innovator and diplo- mat, in the S. L. office Husing was in- deed God. IN AN ATMOSPHERE of explosive phones and epileptic typewriters, With pictures of race horses and venerable gentlemen lining the walls, twice each week the Student Life evoked the jour- nalistic muse. Empty souvenirs of joy- ous pasts on the file case, and a floor stained by the marks of many cigarette butts to inspire the motley crowd as- sembled within the hallowed confines of the Publications office. Here Klipper, Bunnelle, Kelly, Craig, Johnson, and Strehle shaped their tribute to Chris- tian civilization, by contrast if not by example. Known for its Vigor and its noise, the Student Life staff kept the college informed of campus doings and of its own.